Replacement of Spl Characters- REPORT

Hi All,
I want to replace some special characters like & with 'and' # with num. etc in my report.
I tried using REPLACE ALL OCCURANCE OF but this gives performance issue and the report takes a long time to be executed.
Moreover i cannot specify offset and length since the special characters can come anywhere.
Please help me in this. Points will be rewarded for all useful inputs

Hi,
Please select required solution from one of the followings:
REPLACE by Pattern
Replaces strings in fields with other strings using a pattern.
Syntax
REPLACE [ FIRST OCCURENCE OF | ALL OCCURENCES OF ] <old>
        IN [ SECTION OFFSET <off> LENGTH <len> OF ] <text> WITH <new>
        [IGNORING CASE|RESPECTING CASE]
        [IN BYTE MODE|IN CHARACTER MODE]
        [REPLACEMENT COUNT <c>]
        [REPLACEMENT OFFSET <r>]
        [REPLACEMENT LENGTH <l>].
In the string <text>, the search pattern <old> is replaced by the content of <new>. By default, the first occurrence of <old> is replaced. ALL OCCURENCES specifies that all occurrences be replaced. In the fields <old> and <new>, trailing spaces in C fields are ignored, but included in <text>. The SECTION OFFSET <off> LENGTH <len> OF addition tells the system to search and replace only from the <off> position in the length <len>. IGNORING CASE or RESPECTING CASE (default) specifies whether the search is to be case-sensitive. In Unicode programs, you must specify whether the statement is a character or byte operation, using the IN BYTE MODE or IN CHARACTER MODE (default) additions. The REPLACEMENT additions write the number of replacements, the offset of the last replacement, and the length of the last replaced string <new> to the fields <c>, <r>, and <l>.
REPLACE by Position
Replaces strings in fields with other strings by position.
Syntax
REPLACE <str1> WITH <str2> INTO <c> [LENGTH <l>].
                                    [IN BYTE MODE|IN CHARACTER MODE].
ABAP searches the field <c> for the first occurrence of the first <l> characters in the pattern <str1> and replaces them with the string <str2>. In Unicode programs, you must specify whether the statement is a character or byte operation, using the IN BYTE MODE or IN CHARACTER MODE (default) additions.
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