From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-12-17T03:34:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28701] Re: How do you do "character filtering" of a string using each_byte.

olczyk@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L. Olczyk) writes:

> >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.

Or possibly the documentation, which is generally considered a polite
thing to do before posting questions.


Dave