From: "dominique.plante@..." <dominique.plante@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T05:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: delete all non alphanumeric characters

for fun, I started irb, then typed

"567576hgjhgjh&**)".gsub(/^[0-9a-z]/i, '')

It returned

67576hgjhgjh&**)

Tom Werner wrote:
> Logan Capaldo wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Theallnighter Theallnighter wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> how can i delete all non alphanumeric characters in a string ? thanks
> >>
> >> --
> >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >>
> >
> > string.gsub(/[0-9a-z]+/i, '')
> >
> >
> >
> That deletes all alphanumeric. To delete all non-alphanumeric:
>
> string.gsub(/[^0-9a-z]/i, '')
>
> --
> Tom Werner
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