[Python] How to remove non-alpha-numeric characters from strings within a dataframe column?

I have a DF column which has many strings in it. I need to remove all non-alpha numeric characters from that column: i.e:

df['strings'] = ["a#bc1!","a(b$c"]


Run code:

Print(df['strings']): ['abc','abc']


I've tried:

df['strings'].replace([',','.','/','"',':',';','!','@','#','$','%',"'","*","(",")","&",],"")


But this didn't work and I feel that there should be a more efficient way to do this using regex. Any help would be very appreciated.

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