Thread: Help with regex for adding in a hyphen
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Old 08-06-2020, 08:48 AM   #2
davidfor
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The search for the first one would be:
Code:
(\w+)(.*)
The second would be:

Code:
(\w+ \w+)(.*)
With replacement:

Code:
\1 - \2
With whatever punctuation you want in there.

The above assumes the first word doesn't have a hyphen or apostrophe or some non-letter/number character.
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