Removing the special characters...

Hi All,
I have a small problem.
In one of my city table we have values like this as shown below
Moscow - My'tisch'inskaya/1-st, 21
Which contains single quotes in it. is it possible to remove the single quote using a query.
There are more than 3000 records in the table which makes very difficult to remove manually. DB is oracle 10g
thanks in advance
baskar k

Hi,
There are some many methods do that..
SQL> select replace(c1,'''','') from t4;
REPLACE(C1,'''','')
<HR>
Moscow - Mytischinskaya/1-st, 21
SQL> select translate(c1,'''',' ') from t4;
TRANSLATE(C1,'''','')
<HR>
Moscow - My tisch inskaya/1-st, 21
SQL> Update t4
2 set c1 = translate(c1,'''',' ') ;
1 row updated.
SQL> select * from t4;
C1
<HR>
Moscow - My tisch inskaya/1-st, 21
* Pavan Kumar N

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