From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T01:40:31+09:00
Subject: Re: easy question i hope

Caspar Bl wrote:

> hi i need to strip out some boolean operators from search input
> this is what i need to remove
> params[:search_input].gsub!(/AND|OR|&&|||/,'')
> it all works except for || which i suppose is because it is interpreted
> as meaning  or nothing or nothing. so how can i remove the || from the
> input?

Some characters have special meaning to the regular expression engine. To
force them to be interpreted literally (as normal characters), escape them,
like this:

params[:search_input].gsub!(/AND|OR|&&|\|\|/,'')

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Paul Lutus
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