Regex ignoring hyphens and double hyphens

Question

I am trying to get beyond compare ignore a single "-" and double "--" hyphen. I am comparing two PDF documents where the original has a single hyphen and the edited copy replaced all the single hyphens with doubles. I want Beyond Compare to ignore that difference.

I have searched and found where people are able to ignore after either a char or digit (below), but these may be preceded with a space?

[0-9,-]+

Would love to help - could you give an exact example of a statement you're taking in as the input and what you want to match exactly from that? — Tony DiNitto, May 07 '15 at 21:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '16 at 16:38

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You could use the replacement setting (Session->Session Settings)

To do this, you don't need a regex, the replacement is done only in one side.

answered Mar 26 '16 at 16:38

knut

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