Regex for replacing all consecutive dashes to single dash

[DotNetNewbie]

Hi,

I want to replace all consecutive (2 or more) dashes into a single
dash.

So text like "hello--world is-cool------ok?"

should become "hello-word is-cool-ok?"

so it doesn't effect anything except replace all consecutive dashes
into a single dash.

What would the regex look like?

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Regex for replacing all consecutive dashes to single dash

DotNetNewbie wrote:

I want to replace all consecutive (2 or more) dashes into a single
dash.

See
<URL:http://groups.google.c om/group/microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb/browse_thread/thread/6959b1e85a7ea69 e/5604494b6830ccf b?lnk=st&q=#560 4494b6830ccfb>,
code there is VB.NET but the regular expression obviously is the same
for all .NET languages.


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[Luc E. Mistiaen]

Re: Regex for replacing all consecutive dashes to single dash

something like: Text = Regex.Replace(T ext, "-{2,}", "-") ;

/LM

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Hi,
>
I want to replace all consecutive (2 or more) dashes into a single
dash.
>
So text like "hello--world is-cool------ok?"
>
should become "hello-word is-cool-ok?"
>
so it doesn't effect anything except replace all consecutive dashes
into a single dash.
>
What would the regex look like?