Handling special characters

Hello all,

I have a feeling this is a long shot but thought i would ask none the less. We have a bot that reads in the contents of an email  which contains a list of information in the format <LABEL>: <VALUE>.

Unfortunately, sometimes there are hidden special characters after a value. If I were to manually highlight the value in the email i can tell there are special characters usually by the fact there is more than one space after the value. The bot reads in the value along with its special characters which then causes problems later on in the code. I don’t suppose there is any way to check for and weed out special characters in an email?