diff --git a/replacetext.py b/replacetext.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#program to replace all the spaces in an entered string with a hyphen"-"
+def replacetext(string):
+    string=string.split(" ")
+    string="-".join(string)
+    return string
+S=input("Enter a text to replace all its spaces with hyphens: ")
+N=replacetext(S)
+print("The changed text is: ",N)
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