Regular Expression match lines starting with a certain character OR whitespace and then that character

Question

I am trying to write a regular expression that matches lines beginning with a hyphen (-) OR that begins with spaces or tabs and then has a hyphen. So it should match the followi

Answer 1

You can try

^\s*-

• ^: start of string
• \s*: zero or more whitespace characters
• -: a literal - (you don't need to escape this outside a character class)