On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Michael Kuhlmann <k...@solarier.de> wrote: > Jay, > I think the problem is this: > > You're checking whether the character preceding the array of at least one > whitespace is not a hyphen. > > However, when you've more than one whitespace, like this: > "foo- \n bar" > then there's another array of whitespaces - "\n " - which is precedes by the > first whitespace - " ". > > Therefore, you'll need to not only check for preceding hyphens, but also for > preceding whitespaces. > > I'll leave this as an exercise for you. ;) > > -Kuli
Just for the sake of closure, you were correct. I needed to update the regex to include a whitespace character in the negative look-behind, i.e., "(?<![-\s])\s+". Thanks, --jay
