From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T04:14:35+09:00
Subject: Re: RegEx for punctuation?

John Joyce wrote:
> Hey all,
> I have a quick question about RegEx, which I don't use often and I don't 
> have my reference book handy.
> How do I gsub all non alpha-numeric characters to nothing,
> I know it's something like this:
> some_string.gsub!('something here', '')
irb(main):002:0> ",.'abc123".gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/, '')
=> "abc123"

-- 
Alex