RegEx: capture all the phrases with hyphen in them

Question

I have a very long list of words that after converting from another format, some of the words in it are hyphenated. for example:

book, im-moral, law
intesti-nal, lung
flimflam*, fly-by-night*, illegal,

How can I capture all the phrases that have hyphen in them? In case of above example it would be:

im-moral
intesti-nal
fly-by-night

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Should probably be `(-[a-zA-Z]+)+`, otherwise there will be a lot of false positives, as * also matches 0 occurences — Sebastian Proske, Jan 11 '16 at 18:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '16 at 18:48

Please take a look at this plunker link. As anubhava mentioned, we can use the same regexp. I have also added a simple example to check it.

`

var str = 'book, im-moral,law,intesti-nal,lung, flimflam*, fly-by-night*, illegal';

var re = /([a-zA-Z]+(-[a-zA-Z]+)+)/gi;
var found = str.match(re);
alert(found)

`

RegEx: capture all the phrases with hyphen in them

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