Rails - Jul 2008 - gsub all character except alphanum and character "&'

Hi,

I want to replace all the special characters in my string except
''&''
with ''-''. How do i do that?

I am currently using
  gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,''-'')

But how do i say except ''&''?

Please suggest.

Regards,
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Try:

    gsub(/[^[:alnum:]&]/,''-'')

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Subject: [Rails] gsub all character except alphanum and character
"&''


Hi,

I want to replace all the special characters in my string except
''&''
with ''-''. How do i do that?

I am currently using
  gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,''-'')

But how do i say except ''&''?

Please suggest.

Regards,
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.



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