From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-22T22:17:17+09:00
Subject: Re: A stupid question?

n Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Brian Candler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Al Baker wrote in post #1089770:
>> I'm trying to find a way to count the consonants in a sentence. how
>> would i go about that? i tried to use length - [aeiou]. but never got
>> the result i was looking for
>
>>> str = 'Hello, world!?'
>>> str.scan(/[a-df-hj-np-tv-z]/i).size
> => 7
>>> str.gsub(/[^a-df-hj-np-tv-z]/i,'').size
> => 7

(a is a vowel...)

I'd suggest this:

 > s = 'Helloooo my wonderfuuuuul peeeopulllaaaa. IIII am come!!'
 => "Helloooo my wonderfuuuuul peeeopulllaaaa. IIII am come!!"
 > s.scan(/[^aeiou]+/i).join('')
 => "Hll my wndrfl pplll.  m cm!!"
 > s.scan(/[^aeiou]+/i).join('').size
 => 28