How to detect in regex all sorts of hyphens, minus and dashes?

Question

Hyphen, figure dash, en dash, em dash, horizontal bar and hyphen-minus: I want to have a regex expression to detect any one of these separators (character representing an horizontal central line).

Till now I got this:

/[\-\–\—\−\―]/

but I don't know if it is robust enough and btw, I wanted to have with the character codes, to avoid changing the character upon some copy-paste conversion.

You can simply use `[\p{Pd}]` if your regex engine supports it. — Poul Bak, Sep 01 '22 at 01:03
@PoulBak your answer should be the accepted answer, please do kindly reply downwards and I set it as accepted answer — João Pimentel Ferreira, Sep 01 '22 at 09:38

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '22 at 22:59

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Finally found:

[\u002D\u058A\u05BE\u2010\u2011\u2012\u2013\u2014\u2015\u2E3A\u2E3B\uFE58\uFE63\uFF0D]

Got the codes from here, but I just used, as stated in the question, the single horizontal lines

answered Aug 31 '22 at 22:59

João Pimentel Ferreira

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How to detect in regex all sorts of hyphens, minus and dashes?

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