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

Assuming "best" means "simplest" I suggest using something like this:

String stripped = input.replaceAll("\\p{Punct}+", "");

This example is for Java, but all sufficiently modern Regex engines should support this (or something similar).

Edit: the Unicode-Aware version would be this:

String stripped = input.replaceAll("\\p{P}+", "");

The first version only looks at punctuation characters contained in ASCII.