title: Match Pattern to ignore white space in source while match.find
body: <p>I have a Pattern <code>String pageText="Hello World, How areyou doing"</code> (no space). and  have a search <code>pattern</code> representing <code>"How are you"</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(pageText));
  int count = 0;
  while (matcher.find()) {
    count++;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>counter</code> is returning <code>0</code> as the space is missing in my <code>pageText</code> variable. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to ignore the whitespace check and should be able to find the match for the pattern "How are you"?</p>