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RegEx to find whitespace around separator in the a Java properties file
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java_properties_delimiter_whitespace_finder.regex
/**
* Use a lookbehind to make sure we dont accidentaly find ` = ` in the value.
* Prefer the likeliness of missing positive, than getting false positives.
*/
(?<=[a-zA-Z].)+((\s)=(\s)){1}(?=[a-zA-Z])+
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