July 14, 2011 at 3:13 am #9480
CrashNBurn
Member
I do it so I can see at a glance that there is in fact a space being matched.
Regex strings are hard enough to look at as it is :-)
Functionally it is likely no different, but visually, and for working with them, much easier for me to figure out:
[ ]+ than
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