regex for hyphen word break
match the end of line hyphens that split up words
[a-zA-Z][\-]$[\n][a-zA-Z]
Regex Flags
global match
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ignore case
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multiline
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dotAll
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unicode
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sticky
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A hyphen appears at the end of a line when the word must be split to fit on the line
A hyphen word break is when a word is broken into 2 using a hyphen (-) to be continued in the next line
This is especially useful in scraping data when you wanna join hyphen seperated words
Cheatsheet
| expr | usage |
|---|---|
/[a-zA-Z]/ | matches all lowercase and uppercase letters |
/$/ | matches end of a line |
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