Thread: Regex - replace only part of a string - how?
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Old 02-20-2012, 09:29 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by flameproof View Post
Please let me add one more common problem: wrong hyphen (probably from the PDF)

Search: (\w)-(\w)
replace with: \1\2

How can I make it case sensitive? I like to correct 'ele-phant' but not 'John-Bob' ?
I think a brute force approach would be
([a-z]\w)-(\w)
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