How to find the special character in a give string/sentance

Hi All,
I have one task to complete with in the give time. Since i am not very good in PL/SQL i need your your help.
Requirement is :
I have to come up with the SQL or PL/SQL code which should return and find the special or hidden character in the datafiles name in a database. There are nearly 400+ database are present in almost all the flavor of UNIX and i have to check the each and every database.
As you know , Name of the data file will be like this :
/u02/instance_name\oradata\datafile_01.dbf So it should avoid these things and find out only the special characters in the datafile name.
a-z , A-Z , 0-9 and \ Please keep in mind that ...... I will be firing the Oracle script from Oracle 9i client which will access all the database from Oracle 9i to 11g in one short and give me the result.
Please help me to resolve this issue and let me know if you need more information.

Hi,
Mukesh wrote:
Hi Frank,
This is excellent function. Thanks for you responce.
I want to modify this query in such a way that .... i should get only those datafiles name which are holding special characters. I don't know how to put this in where condition. :( Here's one way:
SELECT file_name
,       ...     -- other expressions, if you want any
FROM    dba_data_files
WHERE   TRANSLATE ( file_name
                  , '?0123456789.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\_/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
                  ) IS NOT NULL Among the other expressions you can put into the SELECT clause (if you want to) is a copy of the TRANSLATE function, as you had in your message. That would highlight exactly which character(s) made the file_name invalid.

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