Hyphens and dashes difference?

[volang]

I have received a string from a client that looks like this: "----Code".

When I search for "----Code", it doesn't result in a match. Only when I search for "Code" it works.


Any ideas ? :)

[Repeater]

Examine the actual numerical values of the characters in the client string (and your search string) to confirm they're the same (or not).

  for (const auto& elem : the_string)
  {
      std::cout << static_cast<unsigned>(elem) << ' ';
  }

https://ideone.com/U0Kx8R

[Ganado]

If the message is in unicode, there's tons of different dashes or hyphen or minus sign characters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Common_dashes_and_Unicode_characters