How instead of several hyphens to make one?

Question

As from the text ssilka-na --- top to make sure that there is at most one dash ssilka-na-top

It is necessary to look in the line --- and replace with - . Or is there an easier way?

zenden2k zenden2k 4,946 6 silver marks 28 bronze marks · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-06T12:23:49

 $mystring = 'ssilka-na---top'; echo preg_replace( '/--+/','-', $mystring );

jekaby jekaby 2.574 4 silver marks 18 bronze marks · Answer 2 · 2015-09-06T12:24:26

Replace 2 or more hyphens with one, for example using a regular expression:

 $ php -r "var_dump (preg_replace ('/ \ - + /', '-', 'ssilka-na --- top'));"
 string (13) "ssilka-na-top"

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