# Dialogue text formatting ("-" instead of "•")

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/dialogue-text-formatting-instead-of/119658>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dialogue-text-formatting-instead-of/119658 "2019-06-06T12:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dialogue-text-formatting-instead-of/119658/4 "2019-06-06T13:17:00Z")

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For old posts you can use the rails c console to replace `-` with `\-`

`rake posts:remap["find","replace"]`

but you need to use regex to change only `-` (followed by an empty space?) and not for example `-` used in links or in other situations.

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> Ruby-based regular expression editor/tester

> **[Mastering Ruby Regular Expressions](https://www.rubyguides.com/2015/06/ruby-regex/)**
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> Ruby regular expressions (ruby regex for short) help you find specific patterns inside strings, with the intent of extracting data for further processing. Two common use cases for regular expressions include validation & parsing. For example: ...

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