Compare two strings by ignoring certain characters

Question

I wonder if there is an easy way to check if two strings match by excluding certain characters in the strings. See example below.

I can easily write such a method by

Answer 1

I found myself having the same requirements, the solution I used was based on the String.Compare method:

String.Compare(str1, str2, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, CompareOptions.IgnoreSymbols)