From: Giovanni Intini <intinig@...>
Date: 2004-12-20T20:51:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Scrabble Stems (#12)

thanks for the tip. I always did a match to /\w/ instead of doing like you did.

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:32:08 +0900, Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@gmx.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:20:07 +0900
> Giovanni Intini <intinig@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> | On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:36:18 +0900, James Edward Gray II
> | <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> | > Here's my solution.  It doesn't really have any clever
> | > optimizations, but it runs in seconds.
> |
> | >         line.tr!("^a-zA-Z", "")
> |
> | Can you explain this line?
> |
> |
> 
> Deletes every character which is not in the ranges a-z and A-Z in the
> string variable line. Ie.
> 
> irb(main):001:0> line = "abZdF.A4d"
> => "abZdF.A4d"
> irb(main):002:0> line.tr!("^a-zA-Z", "")
> => "abZdFAd"
> irb(main):003:0>
> 
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> 
>