From: doug meyer <doug.meyer@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T10:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Another RegExp question

If you want, you could tell gsub to replace everything that is not a-z
or A-Z or a white space character

sample = "thi's is a tes<>%$#!|t"
sample.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z\s]/,"")
"this is a test"

On 3/18/07, Harry <ruby.hardware@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/18/07, J. mp <joaomiguel.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > sample = "thi's is a tes<>%$#!|t"
> >
> > what I want is use sample.sub(\['<>%$#!|]\,"")
> > and the outcome shoudl be
> >
> > "this is a test"
> >
> > But I only can replace the first occurence of the chars specified in the
> > reg exp
> >
> > How can I replace all occurences?
> >
>
> But, wouldn't it be easier to do something like this?
>
> sample = "thi's is a tes<>%$###!!!!!###!|t"
> y = sample.delete("#!%<'>$|")
> puts y
>
> Harry
>
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