Python Regex for hyphenated words

Question

I\'m looking for a regex to match hyphenated words in python.

The closest I\'ve managed to get is: \'\\w+-\\w+[-w+]*\'

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Answer 1

Try this:

re.findall(r'\w+(?:-\w+)+',text)

Here we consider a hyphenated word to be:

• a number of word chars
• followed by any number of:
  • a single hyphen
  • followed by word chars