From: Tom Werner <tom@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T05:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: delete all non alphanumeric characters

Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
>
> And it should look like this:
>
> "567576hgjhgjh&**)".sub(/[^0-9a-zA-Z]+/i, '')
>
> Note the +
>

#sub only does one replacement; adding a + will replace one chunk of 
non-alphas, but not any others in the string.

Tom

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