RegEx for no whitespace at the beginning and end

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This should work:

^[^\s]+(\s+[^\s]+)*$

If you want to include character restrictions:

^[-a-zA-Z0-9-()]+(\s+[-a-zA-Z0-9-()]+)*$

Explanation:

the starting ^ and ending $ denotes the string.

considering the first regex I gave, [^\s]+ means at least one not whitespace and \s+ means at least one white space. Note also that parentheses () groups together the second and third fragments and * at the end means zero or more of this group.
So, if you take a look, the expression is: begins with at least one non whitespace and ends with any number of groups of at least one whitespace followed by at least one non whitespace.

For example if the input is ‘A’ then it matches, because it matches with the begins with at least one non whitespace condition. The input ‘AA’ matches for the same reason. The input ‘A A’ matches also because the first A matches for the at least one not whitespace condition, then the ‘ A’ matches for the any number of groups of at least one whitespace followed by at least one non whitespace.

‘ A’ does not match because the begins with at least one non whitespace condition is not satisfied. ‘A ‘ does not matches because the ends with any number of groups of at least one whitespace followed by at least one non whitespace condition is not satisfied.

If you want to restrict which characters to accept at the beginning and end, see the second regex. I have allowed a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and () at beginning and end. Only these are allowed.

Regex playground: http://www.regexr.com/

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