How to strip all non alphanumeric characters from a string in c++?

Question

I am writing a piece of software, and It require me to handle data I get from a webpage with libcurl. When I get the data, for some reason it has extra line breaks in it. I

Answer 1

The following works for me.

str.erase(std::remove_if(str.begin(), str.end(), &ispunct), str.end());
str.erase(std::remove_if(str.begin(), str.end(), &isspace), str.end());