From: Tom Werner <tom@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T05:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: delete all non alphanumeric characters

dominique.plante@gmail.com wrote:
> for fun, I started irb, then typed
>
> "567576hgjhgjh&**)".gsub(/^[0-9a-z]/i, '')
>
> It returned
>
> 67576hgjhgjh&**)
>
>   

The carat goes inside the brackets (it inverses the character class)

Tom

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