How can I strip punctuation from a string?

Question

For the hope-to-have-an-answer-in-30-seconds part of this question, I\'m specifically looking for C#

But in the general case, what\'s the best way to strip punctuati

Answer 1

Why not simply:

string s = "sxrdct?fvzguh,bij.";
var sb = new StringBuilder();

foreach (char c in s)
{
   if (!char.IsPunctuation(c))
      sb.Append(c);
}

s = sb.ToString();

The usage of RegEx is normally slower than simple char operations. And those LINQ operations look like overkill to me. And you can't use such code in .NET 2.0...