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Whitespace vs Nonspace - What's the difference?

whitespace | nonspace |

As nouns the difference between whitespace and nonspace

is that whitespace is while nonspace is that which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces.

whitespace

English

(White space)

Noun

(en noun)

    • nonspace

    English

    Noun

  • That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces.
  • * 1986 , Norbert Messler, The art deco skyscraper in New York
    • Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis.
  • (computing) A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
  • * 2006 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10
    • For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...