这里有很多建议的解决方案，有些比其他的更有效，但可能不是很好读。这里有一个可能不是最有效的，但在大多数情况下肯定是可用的，并且非常简洁易读，利用Linq:

string stringToclean = "This is a test.  Do not try this at home; you might get hurt. Don't believe it?";

var validPunctuation = new HashSet<char>(". -");

var cleanedVersion = new String(stringToclean.Where(x => (x >= 'A' && x <= 'Z') || (x >= 'a' && x <= 'z') || validPunctuation.Contains(x)).ToArray());

var cleanedLowercaseVersion = new String(stringToclean.ToLower().Where(x => (x >= 'a' && x <= 'z') || validPunctuation.Contains(x)).ToArray());

public string RemoveSpecial(string evalstr)
{
StringBuilder finalstr = new StringBuilder();
            foreach(char c in evalstr){
            int charassci = Convert.ToInt16(c);
            if (!(charassci >= 33 && charassci <= 47))// special char ???
             finalstr.append(c);
            }
return finalstr.ToString();
}

除非您真的需要从函数中挤出性能，否则就使用最容易维护和理解的方法。正则表达式是这样的:

为了获得额外的性能，您可以预先编译它，或者只是告诉它在第一次调用时编译(后续调用将更快)。

public static string RemoveSpecialCharacters(string str)
{
    return Regex.Replace(str, "[^a-zA-Z0-9_.]+", "", RegexOptions.Compiled);
}

下面的代码有以下输出(结论是，我们也可以节省一些内存资源分配数组更小的大小):

lookup = new bool[123];

for (var c = '0'; c <= '9'; c++)
{
    lookup[c] = true; System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine((int)c + ": " + (char)c);
}

for (var c = 'A'; c <= 'Z'; c++)
{
    lookup[c] = true; System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine((int)c + ": " + (char)c);
}

for (var c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++)
{
    lookup[c] = true; System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine((int)c + ": " + (char)c);
}

48: 0  
49: 1  
50: 2  
51: 3  
52: 4  
53: 5  
54: 6  
55: 7  
56: 8  
57: 9  
65: A  
66: B  
67: C  
68: D  
69: E  
70: F  
71: G  
72: H  
73: I  
74: J  
75: K  
76: L  
77: M  
78: N  
79: O  
80: P  
81: Q  
82: R  
83: S  
84: T  
85: U  
86: V  
87: W  
88: X  
89: Y  
90: Z  
97: a  
98: b  
99: c  
100: d  
101: e  
102: f  
103: g  
104: h  
105: i  
106: j  
107: k  
108: l  
109: m  
110: n  
111: o  
112: p  
113: q  
114: r  
115: s  
116: t  
117: u  
118: v  
119: w  
120: x  
121: y  
122: z  

你也可以添加以下代码行来支持俄语区域设置(数组大小为1104):

for (var c = 'А'; c <= 'Я'; c++)
{
    lookup[c] = true; System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine((int)c + ": " + (char)c);
}

for (var c = 'а'; c <= 'я'; c++)
{
    lookup[c] = true; System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine((int)c + ": " + (char)c);
}

I had to do something similar for work, but in my case I had to filter all that is not a letter, number or whitespace (but you could easily modify it to your needs). The filtering is done client-side in JavaScript, but for security reasons I am also doing the filtering server-side. Since I can expect most of the strings to be clean, I would like to avoid copying the string unless I really need to. This let my to the implementation below, which should perform better for both clean and dirty strings.

public static string EnsureOnlyLetterDigitOrWhiteSpace(string input)
{
    StringBuilder cleanedInput = null;
    for (var i = 0; i < input.Length; ++i)
    {
        var currentChar = input[i];
        var charIsValid = char.IsLetterOrDigit(currentChar) || char.IsWhiteSpace(currentChar);

        if (charIsValid)
        {
            if(cleanedInput != null)
                cleanedInput.Append(currentChar);
        }
        else
        {
            if (cleanedInput != null) continue;
            cleanedInput = new StringBuilder();
            if (i > 0)
                cleanedInput.Append(input.Substring(0, i));
        }
    }

    return cleanedInput == null ? input : cleanedInput.ToString();
}

正则表达式的使用方法如下:

return Regex.Replace(strIn, @"[^\w\.@-]", "", RegexOptions.None, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1.0));