From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T01:13:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: delete all non alphanumeric characters


On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:

>
> 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.

Speaking of typos, say either a-zA-Z or a-z/i, you don't need both <g>

>
>> Tom
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> Jeremy Tregunna
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>
>
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