From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-12-17T06:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: string to (valid) filename

If you don't like regexp you could use String#tr and String#delete.

$ ruby -e 'puts "Animals: Fox, Wolf, and Bear".delete(",:").tr("
","_")'
Animals_Fox_Wolf_and_Bear
$ ruby -e 'puts "Animals: Fox, Wolf, and
Bear".downcase.delete(",:").tr(" ","_")'
animals_fox_wolf_and_bear

You'll probably have to put more characters in #delete's argument
string.

Learning about regexps is worth the effort.

-Charlie