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Need help to delete special characters exists only at the end of the each record in UNIX file?

Hi,

I have a file in unix with 15 columns.It consists special characters(#,$,^M,@,*,% etc)at the end of the each record.I want to remove these special characters.I used the following:
Code:
Sed -e 's[^a-zA-Z|0-9]/ /g;s/  */ /g'

. But It is removing special characters exists everywhere in the file(begining,middle and end of the file). But I want to remove the special characters appearing only at the end of the each record. I do not want to delete the special characters which are present in the begining or middle of the record. The Unix operating system is AIX.Please do the needful.
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Thanks
Rakesh

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