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I want to search for the following string: A hyphen not surrounded by 
spaces. Therefore I tried the following pattern:
[^ ]-[^ ].
But this pattern finds a hyphen preceded by a letter and followed by a 
newline character, too.

How to exclude the newline character? I tried
[^ ]-[^ \n]
but that does not work. Why? And how to search for this?

Thank you in advance!

Regards
Burkhard