How can i replace Hypen’s inside a string, but ignore hypens preceded by a slash eg: “Just-Testing-A-String-\–But i want to leave this hypen”
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How can i replace Hypen’s inside a string, but ignore hypens preceded by a slash eg: “Just-Testing-A-String-\–But i want to leave this hypen”
If you want to keep only one hyphen that follows the \, then you can use regex
UPDATE:
Actually I don’t believe that it is possible to create such a rexeg, because in this case you would have to do two replacements: one is for
and another one is for
so you need to run two replacements. The only thing I can think of is if you OK with replacing ‘\’ with ‘ ‘ also. Then you can use the following regex