From: olczyk@... (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Date: 2001-12-17T02:15:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28696] Re: How do you do "character filtering" of a string using each_byte.

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:43:13 GMT, David Alan Black
<dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:

>Hello --
>
>
>See Jim M.'s answer -- also, here's an example of how to do it by
>chaining some nice String methods:
>
>  str = "What\t   ever 123  YOU want 2 \t have"
>  newstr = str.tr("\t"," ").delete("[0-9]").squeeze.upcase
>  p newstr # => "WHATEVER YOU WANT HAVE"
>
>
>I know you want to do more than just this one case, but this might
>point you toward some ideas that you use more generally.
>
This response as every response to this thread tells me absolutely
nothing with the exception of pointing me to str.tr where I *might* 
find the answers by looking at the source.