Remove special characters from an array

How can I remove the special charcters from an array of data selectected from the database?I want to check a particular data is present in the array after removing the special characters.Please help.
[220 byte] By [ainamarya] at [2007-11-26 19:17:22]
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What's the problem? Sounds like a simple loop.Kaj
kajbja at 2007-7-9 21:31:29 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...