Remove non ASCII from a text loaded to a table

I would like to use SQLLDR to load a text file to a table.
But I would like to remove all non ASCII from the data either
1. During SQL LOAD
2. Or through a stored procedure.
Could this be done in Oracle?

I have done this on an insert trigger in the past, searching for ascii 0.
In my case it went someting like this:
FOR chr_indx IN 1 .. length(:new.problem_string) loop
IF ascii(substr(:new.problem_string,chr_indx,1)) = 0 then --search here for what you consider is a problem character(s)
--fix the problem
end if;
end loop;

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i need a SQL or Procedure that will search non ascii character in data and update the data by removing it
Suppose there is table TABLE1 with Column NAME
it contain number of row and few has non ascii character eg 'CharacterÄr'
My sql or procedure should be able to search 'CharacterÄr' and update the row with 'Character'
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,      REGEXP_REPLACE ( str
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                      )   AS new_str
FROM    table_x
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4 /
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I can say that anybody with
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