Removing punctuation in last name field

Hi all,
I have to write an API to an email system which does not accept punctuation as part of the mailbox. One of the fields I am using to build the mailbox is the persons last name. The problem I am experiencing is the use of punctutation in the last name field with individuals that have names for example like O'Leary, O'Shea, Baker-Newbie, etc... How would one write the syntax to remove punctuation from a column?
Thanks,
Mike

I would consider the Oracle TRANSLATE function:
How you do things depends on what you want to do with the punctuation characters. If you are going to omit then:
TRANSLATE(last_name,
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!£$%',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
or something like it (just add the characters to omit to the end of the 'from' string) take care to escape any quote symbols in your from string.

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