There's got to be an easy way to do this (fwd)
Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters
mertz at gnosis.cx
Thu Jul 5 13:33:16 EDT 2001
"Jeffery D. Collins" <jcollins at boulder.net> wrote in message
| re.sub("[^0-9]", "", "(555) 333.2221")
"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
| "".join([x for x in '(123)/456-7890' if x in '0123456789'])
filter(lambda c:c.isdigit(), '(123)/456-7890')
Thirteen characters shorter than Emile's, and still no [re] :-).
Personally, I even find it easier to read. YMMV.
Yours, Lulu...
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