Remove double quotes from string

Question

I\'m trying to grab data from a MySQL database and use Ruby to reformat it into a flat text file. Some of my MySQL data contains double quotes like so:

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Answer 1

You could use something like:

text = 'Matthew "Matt" Perry'

text.tr(%q{"'}, '|') # => "Matthew |Matt| Perry"

text = "Matthew 'Matt' Perry"
text.tr(%q{"'}, '|') # => "Matthew |Matt| Perry"