From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T05:19:26+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&**)

No wonder. There was only one character at the begining of the string....



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Rimantas
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