[Solved] How to remove dash (-) from string excluding a number from input alphanumeric string in Java

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Simple fragment that will also handle the other dashes.

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        printFormattedText("-Hello-World. My 123-phone number-456 is 333-333-333");
        printFormattedText("-123 Hello-World. My 123-phone number-456 is 333-aaa-333-");
    }

    private static void printFormattedText(String input) {
        String result = input.replaceAll("^\\-|(\\D)\\-|\\-(\\D)|\\-$", "$1 $2");
        System.out.println(result);
    }

}

Output:

 Hello World. My 123 phone number 456 is 333-333-333
 123 Hello World. My 123 phone number 456 is 333 aaa 333

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