What is this little line called - ?

Question:I completely blanked out.

Answers:
hyphen? dash?
can be used as a minus as well in some programs.
dash
Dash or Minus
yeah it is a hyphen
it is a hyphen
hyphen or minus
hyphen or a dash either or.
Hyphen, dash, em dash, en dash are all possibilities.
hyphen, dash, hash mark.
In publishing, it is called a hyphen.

A dash, on the other hand, can be an en dash (a dash that is one en in length) or a longer em dash (one that is one em long) and all three have different uses.
- is a hyphen when used in writing, minus sign in math

-- is a dash, used only in writing, and is fairly informal
It's a hyphen. A dash is made up of 2 hyphens when typing.

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