Left angle, bang, hyphen, hyphen begins a comment.

Insert Soft Hyphen

Insert Non Breaking Hyphen

1, 2, 3, hyphen, 3, 4.

Well, 1, 2 I can't take the hyphen here.

Free, free again, hyphen, 5, 6, free again, accepted.

Anti biotics. Actually I don't think there is a hyphen Antibiotics.

Sometimes it's considered I don't think there's a hyphen really there.

A single hyphenated word has 3 parts, a word, a hyphen, and another word, so here I match a word, a hyphen, and then another word.

It would be great if I could use a hyphen in my username.

But I could take this epsilon transition for free and then take the hyphen.

My friend Beth is a Filipina American, and she likes to say that we immigrants live in the hyphen.

The Chinese Sunset Motel, situated on a tarnished hyphen called the Sunset Strip that separates Los Angeles from Beverly Hills.

A U.S. social security number involves three numbers, two more numbers, and then four more numbers sometimes separated by a hyphen or a blank.

And in general, we want to allow any number of groups of any non empty size separated by 1 hyphen where each group is 0 through 9 .

We have 0 through 9 , and then as many times as you like we have a hyphen, and then 0 through 9 again as kind of a group.

like 5 presumably from many years ago when there weren't that many phones but do not accept 6 because there is nothing on the left of the hyphen.

For example, the regular expression 4 hyphen 8 matches 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and the regular expression A through B matches the string a and the string b.

Well, one way to think about it is we have 2 types of regular expressions, one that matches normal words, or one that matches a word with a single hyphen.

And here we're going to write a regular expression that matches 2 types of words, normal words, such as alice and bob, and also those with a single hyphen, such as super irvin.

Word elements just have 2 parts, the word word hyphen element so that we know what's going on, and then the actual text from the user, and tag elements which start with tag elements.

And if I'm running find all, I'd rather have it return the hyphenated word super irvin instead of first checking if the word matches just super, then seeing that hyphen doesn't match anything, and then returning irvin.