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  1. import re
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  3. regex = r"(\w+-\w+)|-+"
  4. test_str = ("popcorn-flavoured---\n"
  5. 	"tic-tacs")
  6.  
  7. result = re.sub(regex, r"\1", test_str)
  8. print (result)
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 9524KB
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popcorn-flavoured
tic-tacs
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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5 years ago
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