Remove all non-ASCII characters from string

Question

I have a C# routine that imports data from a CSV file, matches it against a database and then rewrites it to a file. The source file seems to have a few non-ASCII characters

Answer 1

Here's an improvement upon the accepted answer:

string fallbackStr = "";

Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(Encoding.ASCII.CodePage,
  new EncoderReplacementFallback(fallbackStr),
  new DecoderReplacementFallback(fallbackStr));

string cleanStr = enc.GetString(enc.GetBytes(inputStr));

This method will replace unknown characters with the value of fallbackStr, or if fallbackStr is empty, leave them out entirely. (Note that enc can be defined outside the scope of a function.)