What is the Regular Expression For Not Whitespace and Not a hyphen

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I tried this but it doesn t work       s-    Any Ideas

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Try   -     s will match 5 other characters beside the space  like tab  newline  formfeed  carriage return

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Which programming language are you using  May be you just need to escape the backslash like      s-

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In Java       String regex      -  s         System out println  -  matches regex       prints  false      System out println     matches regex       prints  false      System out println     matches regex       prints  true    The regex   - s  works as expected     s-  also works   See also   Regular expressions and escaping special characters regular-expressions info Character class   Metacharacters Inside Character Classes     The hyphen can be included right after the opening bracket  or right before the closing bracket  or right after the negating caret

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s-    should work and so will    - s          The char class     Inside the char class   is the negator when it appears in the beginning   s   short for a white space -   a literal hyphen  A hyphen is a meta char inside a char class but not when it appears in the beginning or at the end

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It can be done much easier    S which equals     t r n v f

[regex] What is the Regular Expression For "Not Whitespace and Not a hyphen"

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