From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T21:01:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Another RegExp question

Hi --

On 3/18/07, J. mp <joaomiguel.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again, I'm allways here to ask how to use regular expressions.
> what I want now is to replace chars from a string with empty spaces
>
> sample = "thi's is a tes<>%$#!|t"
>
> what I want is use sample.sub(\['<>%$#!|]\,"")
> and the outcome shoudl be
>
> "this is a test"
>
> But I only can replace the first occurence of the chars specified in the
> reg exp
>
> How can I replace all occurences?

Use gsub instead of sub.


David

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