From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T02:13:04+09:00
Subject: Re: remove all illegal chars form string

> 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|�" --> "exampLe"

p "exam@p Le3|�".gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/, "")

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/