How do I replace all non-word chars (\W) that are also not space characters (\s)?
This is the desired functionality:
"the (quick)! brown \n fox".gsub(regex, "#")
=>
"the #quick## brown \n fox"
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By making the regex replace anything that is NOT a word character OR a space character.