// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml
extern crate regex;
use regex::Regex;
fn main() {
let regex = Regex::new(r"(?m)[^\s-]\K-\s{1,3}").unwrap();
let string = "The number of spaces after the hyphen can be 1, 2 or 3 like hyphen- ated, hyphen- ated, hyphen- ated .
This is a text with a hyphen- ated word in the middle of the sentence. But it also has - dashes - like the ones in the second sentence. The latter should not be modified";
let substitution = "";
// result will be a String with the substituted value
let result = regex.replace_all(string, substitution);
println!("{}", result);
}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/