title: removing punctuation of strings effectively
body: <p>I read in a text and want to remove all the punctuation of it. My first idea was:</p>
  
  <pre><code>data = readlines("text.txt")
  data = lowercase.(data)
  data = replace.(data, [','], [""])
  data = replace.(data, ['.'], [""])
  data = replace.(data, ['?'], [""])
  data = replace.(data, [';'], [""])
  data = replace.(data, ['!'], [""])
  data = replace.(data, [':'], [""])
  data = replace.(data, ['('], [""])
  data = replace.(data, [')'], [""])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This gets quite fast annoying. I did not find a way to combine them all in one statement. With <code>replace.(data, [".", ";"], ["", ""])</code> I get a DimensionMismatch.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>