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Created March 5, 2015 09:31
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Sanitize a Ruby string to be used as a file name
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sanitize-a-ruby-string-to-be-used-as-a-file-name.rb
def friendly_filename(filename)
filename.gsub(/[^\w\s_-]+/, '')
.gsub(/(^|\b\s)\s+($|\s?\b)/, '\\1\\2')
.gsub(/\s+/, '_')
end
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