SQL UDF to Remove Special Characters from Text

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_RemoveSpecialCharacters] (@name VARCHAR(max))

RETURNS NVARCHAR(max)

AS

BEGIN

       DECLARE @str VARCHAR(MAx)

       SET @str = @name

       WHILE PATINDEX('%[ !@#$%^&*()<>?:"{},./;=+|\_]%', @str) > 0

              SET @str = REPLACE(@str, SUBSTRING(@str, PATINDEX('%[ !@#$%^&*()<>?:"{},./;=+|\_]%', @str), 1), '')

       RETURN replace(@str, '-', '')

END