# replace string

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/replace-string/15781>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [July 17, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/replace-string/15781 "2007-07-17T20:26:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeroen.knoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jeroen.knoops](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/jeroen.knoops)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/replace-string/15781/1 "2007-07-17T20:26:21Z")

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Ola!

try: x = "3(1 i)4" x["(1 i)"] = ""

result: x -\> "34" See Programming Ruby - page 609: =

Best regards, Jeroen