Regex question

Rails
1

I’m trying to replace all characters that are not letters numbers and
white spaces in a string. I’m getting the characters eliminated in this
case a comma but the white space is eliminated to. How do I get around
that?

string = ‘john, tony’
newTerms = string.gsub(/\W/, “”)

thanks

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On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Sam G. wrote:

I’m trying to replace all characters that are not letters numbers and
white spaces in a string. I’m getting the characters eliminated in
this
case a comma but the white space is eliminated to. How do I get around
that?

string = ‘john, tony’
newTerms = string.gsub(/\W/, “”)

newTerms = string.gsub(/[^\w\s]/, “”)
=> “john tony”

is one way…

3

Philip H. wrote:

string = ‘john, tony’
newTerms = string.gsub(/\W/, “”)

newTerms = string.gsub(/[^\w\s]/, “”)
=> “john tony”

is one way…

thanks a million