From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-05-03T13:49:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding tr method in Strings Class

From: Michael W. Ryder [mailto:_mwryder@worldnet.att.net] 
# in one step.  Besides, if I am going to be removing a lot of 
# punctuation the string could get very long and complicated.

delete and translate would do great

irb(main):001:0> "aasdfef".tr "ae","z"
=> "zzsdfzf"
irb(main):002:0> "aasdfef".tr "ae","zy"
=> "zzsdfyf"
irb(main):003:0> "aasdfef".delete "ae"
=> "sdff"