regex question

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I'm trying to replace all characters that are not letters numbers and white spaces in a string. I'm getting the characters eliminated in this case a comma but the white space is eliminated to. How do I get around that?

string = 'john, tony' newTerms = string.gsub(/\W/, "")

thanks

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=> "john tony"

is one way...

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Philip Hallstrom wrote:

string = 'john, tony' newTerms = string.gsub(/\W/, "")

> newTerms = string.gsub(/[^\w\s]/, "") => "john tony"

is one way...

thanks a million