Hi all,
how can i delete all non alphanumeric characters in a string ? thanks
On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Theallnighter T. wrote:
Hi all,
how can i delete all non alphanumeric characters in a string ? thanks–
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string.gsub(/[0-9a-z]+/i, ‘’)
Logan C. wrote:
string.gsub(/[0-9a-z]+/i, ‘’)
That deletes all alphanumeric. To delete all non-alphanumeric:
string.gsub(/[^0-9a-z]/i, ‘’)
On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Tom W. wrote:
Tom W.
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Doh! I’m obviously not awake yet this —err-- afternoon.
On Jul 21, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Jim C. wrote:
–
output:
There are 2007 beans and 15234 grains of rice in this bag.
Thereare2007beansand15234grainsofriceinthisbag–
Well the only “problem” with that is
x = ‘\w includes_under_scores_too’
I think \W is non-perl-word, so underscores won’t be stripped. If you
want
those out too:
irb(main):006:0> str = “The $re34& __q!?”
=> “The $re34& __q!?”
irb(main):007:0> str.gsub( /\W/, ‘’)
=> “There34__q”
irb(main):008:0> str.gsub( /\W|_/, ‘’)
=> “There34q”
irb(main):009:0>
Jeff
On 2006-07-21, Theallnighter T. [email protected]
wrote:
Hi all,
how can i delete all non alphanumeric characters in a string ? thanks
I’ve also just started to learn Ruby, so thought I’d reply for the
practice -
Here’s one solution:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
x = “There are 2007 beans and 15234 grains of rice in this bag.”
puts x
x.gsub!(/\W/, ‘’)
puts x
output:
There are 2007 beans and 15234 grains of rice in this bag.
Thereare2007beansand15234grainsofriceinthisbag
On 2006-07-21, Logan C. [email protected] wrote:
x = ‘\w includes_under_scores_too’
Woah! Thanks for pointing that out. It looks like
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/UsersGuide/rg/regexp.html
has a bug:
\w letter or digit; same as [0-9A-Za-z]
It’s missing a _.
Here’s a fixed version:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
x = “There are 2007 beans_and 15234 grains of rice in this bag.”
puts x
x.gsub!(/\W/, ‘’)
puts x
x.gsub!(/\W|_/, ‘’)
puts “fixed:”
puts x
[email protected] wrote:
for fun, I started irb, then typed
“567576hgjhgjh&**)”.gsub(/^[0-9a-z]/i, ‘’)
It returned
67576hgjhgjh&**)
The carat goes inside the brackets (it inverses the character class)
Tom
for fun, I started irb, then typed
“567576hgjhgjh&**)”.gsub(/^[0-9a-z]/i, ‘’)
It returned
67576hgjhgjh&**)
for fun, I started irb, then typed
“567576hgjhgjh&**)”.gsub(/^[0-9a-z]/i, ‘’)
It returned
67576hgjhgjh&**)
No wonder. There was only one character at the begining of the
string…
Regards,
Rimantas
On 21-Jul-06, at 4:19 PM, Tom W. wrote:
The carat goes inside the brackets (it inverses the character class)
And it should look like this:
“567576hgjhgjh&**)”.sub(/[^0-9a-zA-Z]+/i, ‘’)
Note the +
Tom
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is the notion that everything has to be sacrificed for speed. In
computer languages as in life, speed kills.” – Mike Vanier
On 2006-07-21, Jim C. [email protected]
wrote:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts “fixed:”
puts x
Oops - the above has a bug (although it still “works”). Here’s a fixed
version, with an opposite example further demonstrating the bug in the
ruby doc site:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
s = “There are 2007 beans_and 15234 grains of rice in this bag.”
x = s.dup
y = s.dup
puts “original:”
puts x
x.gsub!(/\W/, ‘’)
puts “\nbroken:”
puts x
y.gsub!(/\W|_/, ‘’)
puts “\nfixed:”
puts y
puts “\nopposite:”
z = s.dup
z.gsub!(/\w/, ‘’)
puts z
–
original:
There are 2007 beans_and 15234 grains of rice in this bag.
broken:
Thereare2007beans_and15234grainsofriceinthisbag
fixed:
Thereare2007beansand15234grainsofriceinthisbag
opposite:
.
Jeremy T. wrote:
And it should look like this:
“567576hgjhgjh&**)”.sub(/[^0-9a-zA-Z]+/i, ‘’)
Note the +
#sub only does one replacement; adding a + will replace one chunk of
non-alphas, but not any others in the string.
Tom
On 21-Jul-06, at 4:44 PM, Tom W. wrote:
of non-alphas, but not any others in the string.
typo, sorry.
Tom
–
Jeremy T.
[email protected]
“One serious obstacle to the adoption of good programming languages
is the notion that everything has to be sacrificed for speed. In
computer languages as in life, speed kills.” – Mike Vanier
On 7/21/06, Theallnighter T. [email protected] wrote:
Hi all,
how can i delete all non alphanumeric characters in a string ? thanks–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
TMTOWTDI:
username.delete(‘^A-Za-z0-9’)
…I just thought I’d add a little variety to this collection of
Regexp-centric solutions.
On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Jeremy T. wrote:
#sub only does one replacement; adding a + will replace one chunk
of non-alphas, but not any others in the string.typo, sorry.
Speaking of typos, say either a-zA-Z or a-z/i, you don’t need both