Regex excluding

[ClassicalSoul]

How could I use regex to match everything not in between hyphens? E.g. re.search(r"<>", "- i don't want this - I do want this")

Edit: This particular example is simple, and could be solved using re.split() -- but that won't generally work

[bowlofred]

Replace the bits you don't want with nothing.

target = "Stuff at front - i don't want this - I do want this" wanted = re.sub(r'-.*-', '', target) print(wanted)

Output:
Stuff at front I do want this

[DeaD_EyE]

You can do it without regex with str methods.

def get_this(text): left, _, right = text.rpartition("-") return right.strip() data = "- i don't want this - I do want this" result = get_this(data) print(result)