Eliminate a list of characters from a string?

[William Park]

Max <maxx at easynews.com> wrote:
> What is the simplest method (that does not perform too poorly) for eliminating
> any of a list of characters from a string. Currently, I ahev a script that used
> multiple string.replace statements. In other words, if I have the string
> 'A1B2C3' and want to eliminate the numbers leaving 'ABC' I could use:
> 
> S1='A1B2C3'
> S2=STRING.REPLACE(S1,'1','')
> S2=STRING.REPLACE(S2,'2','')
> S2=STRING.REPLACE(S2,'3','')
> 
> However, if the list of eliminated characters is long, it seems a bit
> inefficient.

It also doesn't work.  'STRING.*()' should be lower case.  In any case, 
    os.system ("tr -d '1234567890'")
will solve your problem.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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