From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T02:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: remove all illegal chars form string

On 28/06/06, thomas coopman <thomas.coopman@gmail.com> wrote:> Is there a simple way to remove all but the legal chars from a string.  where the legal chars are for example: a-z A-Z 0-9> So everything should be removed from the string but these characters.> "exam@p  Le3|則" --> "exampLe"
Yes, there is:
str = "exam@p  Le3|則"str.gsub(/[^a-z0-9]/i, '') # => "exampLe3"
Paul.