Escaping the "&" character

Hi,
I am using a shuttle item that retrieves data for the left shuttle list using an Ajax call but where the data has an ampersand ("&") in it, seems to prevent all of that data set appearing.
Can someone please suggest the best approach to prevent this from happening so that any information that has a ampersand ("&") between data, functions correctly - basically need to escape the "&".
Thanks.
Tony.

I only think that worked for me was to use TRANSLATE.
select translate(column, '&','+') from table
Then I was able to get the data displayed (P.S., you should also transalte quotation marks (single and double) as well.
Robert

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