Replace special characters Ruby

Question

I want to replace all these characters: 'àáäâãèéëẽêìíïîĩòóöôõùúüûũñç' to 'aaaaaeeeeeiiiiiooooouuuuunc'.

Is there a effective way to do this in Ruby? I was thinking about loop each character, but it's not effective.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would use String#tr which is faster than a Regexp when replacing single characters:

string = 'hàllò wörld'
string.tr('àáäâãèéëẽêìíïîĩòóöôõùúüûũñç', 'aaaaaeeeeeiiiiiooooouuuuunc')
#=> '"hallo world"'