From: David Pollak <pollak@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T02:18:01+09:00
Subject: Re: remove all illegal chars form string

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Thomas,

s =3D "exam@p  Le3|=A7"
s.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/, '') # =3D> "exampLe"

Thanks,

David


On 6/28/06, thomas coopman <thomas.coopman@gmail.com> 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|=A7" --> "exampLe"
>
> I don't know very much about regular expressions, so I don't know if it's
> possible with sub or gsub.  My first Idea was to loop over the string and
> check every character but I wondered if there is something more simple or
> better.
>
> Thanks
>
>


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