I don't know of an existing tool, probably because it depends on what you consider a 'special' character. Are line feeds and carriage returns OK? How about tab?

If you only want 'printable' characters then loop through each character in the file:

IF SEQ(CHARACTER) > 31 AND SEQ(CHARACTER) < 127 THEN...

Ron Hutchings wrote:
Is there a tool to remove special characters from a text file?  Other than a 
roll your own with convert or replace in a program?
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