Question

How to remove all non-ASCII characters from a string in Ruby

Answer 1

# Removes all non‑ASCII characters from a string.
# ASCII range = 0x00–0x7F
def remove_non_ascii(text)
  text.gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]/, "")
end

input = "©€ABC£µ¥xyz!® 123 こんにちは"

output = remove_non_ascii(input)

puts output


=begin
run:

ABCxyz! 123 

=end

 

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