Sql: remove special characters

Hello!
maybe someone has a hint for me how to remove special characters such as tab/new line characters from columns?
Thanks in advance!
Tiberius

Hmm... actually it's straight forward:
drop table mytexts
create table mytexts (comment varchar(50))
insert into mytexts values ('This is a standard text!')
insert into mytexts values ('There comes a TAB     <--')
insert into mytexts values ('This is called a newline
<--<')
select * from mytexts
| COMMENT                                            |
| -------------------------------------------------- |
| This is a standard text!                           |
| There comes a TAB     <--                              |
| This is called a newline
<--<                     |
3 rows selected (1375 usec)
sqlcli db770=> select replace (replace(comment, '       '), '
> ') as cleaned_comment from mytexts
> ;
| CLEANED_COMMENT                                    |
| -------------------------------------------------- |
| Thisisastandardtext!                               |
| TherecomesaTAB<--                                  |
| Thisiscalledanewline<--<                           |
3 rows selected (1662 usec)
Seems to work...
regards,
Lars

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