From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T07:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: delete all non alphanumeric characters


On 21-Jul-06, at 4:44 PM, Tom Werner wrote:

> 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.

typo, sorry.

> Tom

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