regex question

[Sam Ginko]

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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[Philip Hallstrom]

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

[Sam Ginko]

Philip Hallstrom wrote:

>>
>> string = 'john, tony'
>> newTerms = string.gsub(/\W/, "")
>
> > newTerms = string.gsub(/[^\w\s]/, "")
> => "john tony"
>
> is one way...

thanks a million