how to replace characters in string

[aulo aasmaa]

Background:
I have a JTable (the problem is not in swing), where I have some columns of numbers. All numbers are formatted, so that 1000 becomes 1 000.00 or 1'000.00 and 12.1 becomes 12.10
Problem:
One of my processes understands the decimal places, but gives an error to the apostrophes (') and spaces.
Question:
How do I replace these characters with nothing? I mean How do I get from 1'000.00 to 1000.00, the decimal places remain, I only need to get rid of the bad characters.
Code

java.math.BigDecimal split = new java.math.BigDecimal(myTable.getValueAt(myTable.getSelectedRow(),4).toString());

Tnx!
[This message has been edited by aulo aasmaa (edited August 15, 2001).]

[aulo aasmaa]

OK, found a way to handle the problem, but a new one appeared right away.
The following code transforms 1'000.00 to 1 000.00, but this
is no good. I would like to get rid of the space as well, but I cannot declare the "newchar" as ''

char oldchar = '\'';
char newchar = ' ';
java.math.BigDecimal splitamt = new java.math.BigDecimal(tblDataTable.getValueAt(tblDataTable.getSelectedRow(),4).toString().replace(oldchar,newchar));

How do I remove the space?

[aulo aasmaa]

The solution I got from forums.java.sun.com:
(by anders.hedstrom )

// StringBuffer used
Character c = new Character('\'');
String str = myTable.getValueAt(myTable.getSeletedRow(),4).toString(); // str = 1'000.00
int index = str.indexOf(c.charValue());
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(str);
str = buf.deleteCharAt(index).toString(); // str = 1000.00