# How do I check for non-breaking space in target?
**URL:** https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-do-i-check-for-non-breaking-space-in-target/32
**Category:** Technical Support
**Created:** [February 7, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-do-i-check-for-non-breaking-space-in-target/32 "2016-02-07T17:59:52Z")
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### Author:  [@XbenchUser](https://forum.xbench.net/u/XbenchUser)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-do-i-check-for-non-breaking-space-in-target/32/1 "2016-02-07T17:59:52Z")
I would like to create an automate search for absence of non-breaking spaces in target: e.g. “Software -[nbsp] 1.0”.
I need to ensure that there is a non-breaking space between software name and version in target, so I would like to search for hits where it is absent.
However, I did not figure out who to make Xbench differentiate between non-breaking spaces and normal whitespace.
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### Author:  [@pcondal](https://forum.xbench.net/u/pcondal)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-do-i-check-for-non-breaking-space-in-target/32/2 "2016-02-07T18:07:34Z")
You can check whether there is not a non-breaking space between the software name and the version number with this search expression:
`Source: "Software[:space:]1\.0"`
`Target: -"Software\x00a01\.0"`
`Search settings: Regex Mode, Powersearch (Ctrl+P)`
`\x00a0` stands for non-breaking space (hexadecimal code).
Note that you should replace _Software_ with the actual program name and that the dot (`.`) in the version number must be escaped with a backslash (`\`). If not, the dot means _any character_ in Regex.
With these search settings, Xbench will display all segments that contain _Software_ + _whitespace_ + _VersionNumber_ in the source text and do not have _Software_ + _non-breaking space_ + _VersionNumber_ in target.