From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T05:10:46+09:00
Subject: Re: remove all illegal chars form string

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 20:56, Pete wrote:
> just too bad the rdoc is inaccurate and says that delete takes a string
> as argument and not a regexp

That's actually correct. At first glance I thought it just constructed a regex 
from the given string (due to its understanding of character ranges). 
Instead, both String#count and String#delete take this kind of pseudo-regex. 
Is there a reason it wouldn't make more sense for these methods to take a 
regexp?

Alex