How can I delete special characters?

Question

I\'m practicing with Ruby and regex to delete certain unwanted characters. For example:

input = input.gsub(/<\\/?[^>]*>/, \'\')

and fo

Answer 1

You can match all the characters you want, and then join them together, like this:

original = "aøbæcå"
stripped = original.scan(/[a-zA-Z]/).to_s
puts stripped

which outputs "abc"