How to detect any special character ina string?

Hi!
I'm having a problem with a string. Basically the string is an output of some function and that may contains some special character which is not shown in the string - for example - chr(10)/chr(13) etc.
Is there any method or procedure that can detect all the special character inside that string and remove them all other than all the characters and digitis which is in form of character? I'm using oracle 9i.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Regards.
Satyaki De.

I've tried your solution - but i don't think it is working --
satyaki>ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace function extract_printable(vc varchar2)
2 return varchar2
3 is
4 c_non_printable varchar2(33)
5    := chr(00)||chr(01)||chr(02)||chr(03)||chr(04)||chr(05)||chr(06)||chr(07)||chr(08)||chr(09)
6    || chr(10)||chr(11)||chr(12)||chr(13)||chr(14)||chr(15)||chr(16)||chr(17)||chr(18)||chr(19)
7    || chr(20)||chr(21)||chr(22)||chr(23)||chr(24)||chr(25)||chr(26)||chr(27)||chr(28)||chr(29)
8    || chr(30)||chr(31)||chr(127);
9 begin
10    return(translate(vc,'a'||c_non_printable,'a'));
11* end;
satyaki>/
Function created.
satyaki>
satyaki>select length(extract_printable('this is        ')) src
2 from dual;
       SRC
        15
satyaki>But, thanks for your reply.
Regards.
Satyaki De.

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