How to regex dashes and special characters?

[ajeffers]

I am looking to eliminate dashes in the following text:

Century Surety Company - Commercial Ocean Marine Declarations — Marine Liability

I would like to remove both types of dashes - and —

[ptrobot]

You don’t need to escape the dashes (usually). Other special characters, e.g. $ you need to escape with backslash: \$

[-—]+

The dash - is a meta character if not in the beginning or at the end of a character class, e.g. [0-9] will match any digits between 0 and 9. If you only want to match 0, dash or 9, you need to escape the dash: [0\-9]

[ajeffers]

thank you! this worked. is there any way I could eliminate single spaces of white space in between the words with regex with that?

Century Surety Company Commercial Ocean Marine Declarations Marine Liability

[ptrobot]

You are welcome! Glad to hear that it’s working. To remove the double spaces, use the pattern below with Regex.Replace().

newString = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(inputString, " +[-—]+ +", " ")