How do I strip non-alphanumeric characters (including spaces) from a string?

Question

How do I strip non alphanumeric characters from a string and loose spaces in C# with Replace?

I want to keep a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and nothing more (not even \" \" spaces).<

Answer 1

And as a replace operation as an extension method:

public static class StringExtensions
{
    public static string ReplaceNonAlphanumeric(this string text, char replaceChar)
    {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(text.Length);

        foreach(char c in text)
        {
            if(c >= 'a' && c <= 'z' || c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z' || c >= '0' && c <= '9')
                result.Append(c);
            else
                result.Append(replaceChar);
        }

        return result.ToString();
    } 
}

And test:

[TestFixture]
public sealed class StringExtensionsTests
{
    [Test]
    public void Test()
    {
        Assert.AreEqual("text_LaLa__lol________123______", "text LaLa (lol) á ñ $ 123 ٠١٢٣٤".ReplaceNonAlphanumeric('_'));
    }
}