From: "gene.tani@..." <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T02:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: remove all illegal chars form string


thomas coopman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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"
>

The easiest way to find stuff is to search comp.lang.ruby through
Google groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/c9b63420fe8f66a9?q=remove+non-ASCII&

ruby-talk-google was set up in late April and doesn't have much
searchable history