Question

I have a string and want to remove all non-symbolic characters (exclude ‘ ‘). So if I have a “some, – another” I want to get “some another”.

I can use s.gsub(/\W/, '') to remove all non-symbolic characters, but it remove spaces ‘ ‘ also.

I can use s.gsub(/\S/, '') to remove all non-spaces, but it removes all symbolic characters.

How can I combine this two conditions?

Answer 1

This should work:

s = "some, -  another"
s.gsub(/[^\s\w]/, '')
> "some  another"