Yeah this one was actually extremely strange. Like I said before it took me 3 days and when I finally DID manage to figure it out and see everyone elses stuff, the top rated one was completely incomprehensible and looked almost as if it shouldn't be possible. But it was

Either way, good luck with the rest of your kata. I got Kyu 4 kata myself and it seems almost ridiculous what some of this wants. And have fun, very important that part.

Even though I didn't solve this kata at moment when I saw your comment, but now - yes. I was really amazed by how many ways you could solve this kata

I can't give too much of a hint, but it's best to make a seperate function for handling the weirdness of the question.

Sorry if that's not very specific but that's about all I can really say. Though it's been some time so you probably already solved this

Could you give some hint for thinking about that?

I skipped mine because I couldn't get regex to work on it. This is a much more elegant solution. Good stuff!

This is quite possibly the most incomprehensible gibberish I've ever seen. The fact it works is incredible and I'm thoroughly impressed.

This one packs so much complexity into a single line. This has a lot to unpack and I'm gonna be studying this for an hour or 2.

This is really cool!

XD

Fair enough. I completely overlooked that

From the kata's description:

but do not begin or end the string with a dash mark.

Not a kata issue.