Removing Special characters in OBIEE report output

Hi All,
I have a scenario where one of the my column outputs are
EROOR MSG DESC
detail_mismatch
detail_mis
Detail Mismatch .
Above three values have the same meaning.Is there any way i can name all three values with the unique name in OBIEE .(I know we can do that in Database level but is there any way in obiee ??)

Either use a case statement or use a combination of replace and upper case to translate all three to the same thing.
regards,
Robert.

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check this thread.
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