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I'm looking for a regex to delete lines that only have spaces &nbsp;or tabs on them, and NOT delete all line feeds. So a line with just a &nbsp;\n or \r would stay, but spaces\tabs and a \n or \r would be deleted
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I'm looking for a regex to delete lines that only have spaces  or tabs on them, and NOT delete all line feeds. So a line with just a  \n or \r would stay, but spaces\tabs and a \n or \r would be deleted

PHP Regular Expression Help. Delete lines with nothing but spaces.

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