Regex to replace invalid characters

Question

I don\'t have much experience with RegEx so I am using many chained String.Replace() calls to remove unwanted characters -- is there a RegEx I can write to streamline this?<

Answer 1

Character classes to the rescue!

string messyText = GetText();
string cleanText = Regex.Replace(messyText.Trim().ToUpper(), @"[,:.;/\\\n\t\r ]+", "")