Whitespace

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  whitespace
       
           (From the colour it produces on white paper) Any
          contiguous sequence of {spaces}, {tabs}, {carriage return}s,
          and/or {line feed}s.  Whitespace might also possibly include
          {form feed} characters.  The term is common on {Unix}.


       
          See also {non-printing character}.
       
          (1996-09-04)