Remove double quotes from string

Question

I\'m trying to grab data from a MySQL database and use Ruby to reformat it into a flat text file. Some of my MySQL data contains double quotes like so:

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Answer 1

It removes doublequotes. You can see them in IRB or when using p only because string are being showed for you in these cases in nice form, allowing you to see, that they are strings.

irb> 'Matthew "Matt" Perry'.scan(/'(.+?)'|"(.+?)"|([^ ]+)/).flatten.compact
=> ["Matthew", "Matt", "Perry"]

In real, they already don't have doublequotes.

irb> puts 'Matthew "Matt" Perry'.scan(/'(.+?)'|"(.+?)"|([^ ]+)/).flatten.compact
Matthew
Matt
Perry
=> nil

And to replace doublequotes with dash, you may use .tr:

irb> 'Matthew "Matt" Perry'.tr '"','|'
=> "Matthew |Matt| Perry"