From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-08-29T19:01:04+09:00
Subject: Re: delete char

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Pen Ttt <myocean135@yahoo.cn> wrote:
> i want to make 'gkhj*&()' into 'gkhj',here is my code
>  item='gkhj*&()'
>  item=item.map{|echar|
>  if /[a-z]/=~ echar then
>    echar=echar
>  else
>    echar=''
>  end}
>  puts item
> why i can't get what i want?
> Any advice appriciated.

Much easier to use gsub with a negative character set for this:

  puts item.gsub(/[^a-z]+/, '')

HTH,
Ammar