How to match hyphens with Regular Expression?

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The hyphen is usually a normal character in regular expressions. Only if it’s in a character class and between two other characters does it take a special meaning.

Thus:

  • [-] matches a hyphen.
  • [abc-] matches a, b, c or a hyphen.
  • [-abc] matches a, b, c or a hyphen.
  • [ab-d] matches a, b, c or d (only here the hyphen denotes a character range).

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