Find special characters from the column of the table

Below is the simple SQL query to find those records from the table that contain special characters.
Simply create a table, insert some data into it containing special characters or copy and paste the below code in to query window and execute.

DECLARE @data AS TABLE (RecordId INT IDENTITY, TextData VARCHAR(100))

INSERT INTO @data(TextData)
VALUES ('hello abc'), ('hello $hyam'), ('testing % char'), ('hello ram'),
('hello.'), ('testing # now'), ('testing @ now and ! also'), ('why lefting ^me and & me too')

SELECT *
FROM   @data
WHERE  TextData LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z0-9,.()* ]%'

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