Trim non-breaking space

I have got some columns imported with leading non-breaking space (chr(160)) when I imported them from excel. I need to clean it up. How do I trim the non-breaking space out of the column.
I tried replace(column, chr(160), '') but that did not work. Can anyone help me with this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I tried replace(column, chr(160), '') but that did not work.are you sure it is chr(160) then? replace should work though:
SQL> with t as (
select chr(160) || ' other text' s from dual
select length(s) length_org, length(replace(s,chr(160))) length from t
LENGTH_ORG LENGTH
12 11

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