From: Nicholas Clare <nickclare@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T15:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Extract numbers from string

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On 9/25/07, eggie5 <eggie5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Say I have a phone number "(555) 555-5555" and I want to extract the
> numbers from it. What's the most succinct way to do this? E.g.:
>
> old_num = "(555) 111-5555"
> new_num = "5551115555"
>
> old_num = "555-666-7777"
> new_num = "5556667777"
>
>
>

Hi,

I would try
new_num = old_num.scan(/\d/).join('')

Hope that does what you want

Nick

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