Removing all whitespace lines from a multi-line string efficiently

Question

In C# what\'s the best way to remove blank lines i.e., lines that contain only whitespace from a string? I\'m happy to use a Regex if that\'s the best solution.

EDIT

Answer 1

In response to Will's bounty, which expects a solution that takes "test\r\n \r\nthis\r\n\r\n" and outputs "test\r\nthis", I've come up with a solution that makes use of atomic grouping (aka Nonbacktracking Subexpressions on MSDN). I recommend reading those articles for a better understanding of what's happening. Ultimately the atomic group helped match the trailing newline characters that were otherwise left behind.

Use RegexOptions.Multiline with this pattern:

^\s+(?!\B)|\s*(?>[\r\n]+)$

Here is an example with some test cases, including some I gathered from Will's comments on other posts, as well as my own.

string[] inputs = 
{
    "one\r\n \r\ntwo\r\n\t\r\n \r\n",
    "test\r\n \r\nthis\r\n\r\n",
    "\r\n\r\ntest!",
    "\r\ntest\r\n ! test",
    "\r\ntest \r\n ! "
};
string[] outputs = 
{
    "one\r\ntwo",
    "test\r\nthis",
    "test!",
    "test\r\n ! test",
    "test \r\n ! "
};

string pattern = @"^\s+(?!\B)|\s*(?>[\r\n]+)$";

for (int i = 0; i < inputs.Length; i++)
{
    string result = Regex.Replace(inputs[i], pattern, "",
                                  RegexOptions.Multiline);
    Console.WriteLine(result == outputs[i]);
}

EDIT: To address the issue of the pattern failing to clean up text with a mix of whitespace and newlines, I added \s* to the last alternation portion of the regex. My previous pattern was redundant and I realized \s* would handle both cases.