UDF for replacing special or junk characters

Hi
Is there any stanard function for replacing any junk characters with zero? If not, I needed UDF for fulfilling this requirement.
My requirment is .... Am sending some files to r/3 using XI. In the source(txt file) some time some fields have some junk characters. I must make it to zero, the field which has junk. How can I acheive it? is there any UDF using which I can fulfill my requiremnt.
Thanks.

Hi,
Use this UDF
Here a is the input value.
String b = "";
b = a.replaceAll(",", "0");
b = a.replaceAll("@", "0");
Like all the special characters you can take and replace with zero.
return b;
Or
Use the regular expression to check whether special characters occurs in the string then replace with zero
http://www.j2ee.me/developer/technicalArticles/releases/1.4regex/
Regards
Ramesh.

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