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

For anyone who would like to do this via RegEx:

This code shows the full RegEx replace process and gives a sample Regex that only keeps letters, numbers, and spaces in a string - replacing ALL other characters with an empty string:

//Regex to remove all non-alphanumeric characters
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex TitleRegex = new 
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("[^a-z0-9 ]+", 
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

string ParsedString = TitleRegex.Replace(stringToParse, String.Empty);

return ParsedString;