Multiple characters replaced in a string

Hello,
I have a column that contains phone numbers but all have different formats. Some are formatted like (xxx) xxx-xxxx, some like xxx.xxx.xxxx and some are like xxx xxx xxxx. I was wondering how in one sql statement I could remove the characters (). or a blank space so the formatting would just be xxxxxxxxxx.
I know I can do multiple replace statements to do this but was wondering if there was a more elegant solution to this.
Oracle 10g
Thank you

Hi,
If you can list all the characters you want to remove, then TRANSLATE is great.
TRANSLATE ( phone_txt
          , '9 .(-)'
          , '9'
          )The 2nd argument starts with one of the characters that you want to keep (it doesn't matter which one), followed by all the characters that you want to remove.
The 3rd argument consists entirely of that one character you used to start the 2nd argument. That character will be "translated" to itself, and all the others will be translated to nothing (that is, removed).
If you can only list the characters you want to keep, then REGEXP_REPLACE is good:
REGEXP_REPLACE ( phone_txt
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