Replace any occurence of a character in a varchar2 column

What would be the best way to replace any occurence of a character in a column (varchar2) of a table?
Lets say we want to replace any occurence of the character ~ by the character & in the column c1 of the table t.
Is it possible in pure SQL?
I did it in PL/SQL in a while loop but I am pretty sure there is a way to do that in a single SQL statement. Am I right on wrong?
Thanks
Best regards,
Carl

The Ampersand has a special meaning in SQL to mark a variable.
That's why you need to set 'scan off' or 'define off' or
For more information see here
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a90842/ch13.htm#1012408
set scan off
update t
set c1=replace(c1, '~', '&');

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