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I can't find it, so I'm not sure whether I posted this question earlier, or just started to write the post, and closed the browser in the middle. Mixed memories about arrays confuse me even more.

I guess this is again ruby question. Cleaning data from non-numeric characters, spaces and so on. While it's not a big deal with anything after numers (standard green prims can do this by default), I don't know how to remove anything prior do that data.

Let say that I have an array written like this:

11asd,12bcv3,crd13, 14,15

A real mess, but it should end like this:

11,12,13,14,15

So all non-numeric characters (except comma - yep, this time comma) prior to first numeric substring (at index), and after it - are removed.

The cleaning has to do with possible user interactions with data, that are entered manually. I used harsh example; usually it will be all sort of typos.

it is string related in your example and you can use .gsub for it

problem here is that there are no special signs included like "!","?",.... will still be there, and only all alphabeticals are deleted.. would need some search in regex

Thanks, but there is small thing. What about non-letter non-numeric characters? Like /.:'\ and so on? From what I see, adding items to [] part - uses them as filter (so it works for some signs), but there are some limitations, like slashes /\ and few others. Is there a pattern definition, that removes all except numbers (and optionally commas; this part can be eventually remultiplexed via green prims)?

Or different way - "pass through only numbers and commas" instead of "remove all except numbers and commas"?

//edit: it looks that it can go through a parser.

oh got it, instead of matchevery character in the brackets you can do a ^ befor so it matches every character NOT in the brackets


http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby ... ssions.htm

I see, thanks, will use yours.
Meanwhile I did this one (but seems to not work correctly).

tester wrote:What about non-letter non-numeric characters? Like /.:'\ and so on?

Delete special characters with...

or

I think what Nubeat7 proposed would be better here, because it limits the choice to showing numbers and selected characters instead of removing the "unknown party".

Yes...I'm just addressing the special character removal.
I imagine you would probably map them all together next.

Sure, I understand. Just pointed it to others who read.