Protip: InsightConnect's Pattern Match (re2) won't match non-breaking space using `\s`

Protip: InsightConnect’s Pattern Match (re2) won’t match non-breaking space using \s. To match non-breaking space, use \x{A0}.

This is especially hard to debug since the Jobs Output UI displays both normal-space and non-break space the same.


I encountered this when failing to pattern matching with my Slack Bot command. The command will pattern match successfully when I type it into Slack the first time, but will then fail to pattern match when I copy and paste that same command into Slack. Turns out Slack will sometimes (not sure when) replace your whitespaces with non-breaking space.

It would be nice if IC’s Slack Bot replaced occurrences of non-breaking, or displayed non-breaking better in the UI.

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