whitespace
Noun
Meaning
whitespace (countable and uncountable, plural whitespaces)
(often attributive) Alternative spelling of white space
Synonyms
Antonyms
Examples
A quoted string can typically contain anything but a quote, while an unquoted identifier atom can typically contain anything but quote, whitespace characters, parenthesis, brackets, braces, backslash, and semicolon.
Among the supported control characters in XML 1.1 are two line break codes that must be treated as whitespace.
However, a common restriction is not to permit whitespace characters and language operators; this simplifies tokenization by making it free-form and context-free.
Another inefficiency with the RLE algorithm is that it is possible to store chunks with a length of 0, which allows whitespace in the file.
All whitespace is considered equivalent, and the keywords, table names, and column names are not case-sensitive.
Examples include paragraph separators, tabs, and most other whitespace characters.