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Phssthpok · Yesterday, 04:00 AM

I have a book which has hyphens instead of em dashes, and I'm trying to fix it. Using a regex like "-(and|but|with)" catches a few cases, but it would be better to find all "\w+-\w+" which are not in the current dictionary, which would catch about 99% of all cases (and leave the remainder to the proofreading stage).

How could I write a regex function to do this?

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Phssthpok Age improves with wine. Posts: 582 Karma: 95229 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Libra II	How to write regex function which uses dictionary? I have a book which has hyphens instead of em dashes, and I'm trying to fix it. Using a regex like "-(and\|but\|with)" catches a few cases, but it would be better to find all "\w+-\w+" which are not in the current dictionary, which would catch about 99% of all cases (and leave the remainder to the proofreading stage). How could I write a regex function to do this?