Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\B-)

\Bnot an ASCII word boundary

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

(?<=\B-)\w+

New

-I want -to match a word-if it has a '-' bofore it and only-if '-' is not preceded by a word character.

-I want -to match a word-if it has a '-' bofore it and only-if '-' is not preceded by a word character.