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gmb1994
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Filter help selecting middle-of-line punctuation or symbol

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How can I select (extract) all lines that include hyphenated names, for example:
Osler-Weber
Turner-Wilson
abc-def
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Use Filters\Extract\Extract Matching lines, with a perl pattern of

.+\-.+

ie match one or more characters before and after the -
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