On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:09 AM, elioncho wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to apply a gsub! to a string. I want to know how to make > the pattern evaluate that everything that IS NOT numbers, letters or > commas should be replaced with ""(nil). Any ideas in how to do this > pattern?
/[^[:alnum:],]/ [^ ] - is a negated character class [:alnum:] - is the POSIX character class for alphanumerics , - is a comma ;-) > Thanks a lot, > > Elías Since you have an accented character in you name, I'm assuming that the [:alnum:] class is better than just a-zA-Z0-9 since it should encompass the accented characters, too. -Rob Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
