Removing special characters and carriage returns from text area?

I’m a php noob, I’ve tried hacking something together using the ‘wpcf7_before_send_mail’ and I’m coming up just a bit short.

Anyone have any examples of modifying field values before sending emails?

add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'save_form' );
function save_form( $wpcf7 ) {
	$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
	$posted_data = $submission->get_posted_data();

	$newString = [your-message];
	$myText = (string)$newString;
	$newText = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\']/', '', $myText);

	$mail = $wpcf7->prop('mail');
	// Find/replace the tag as defined in your CF7 email body
	$mail['body'] = str_replace('[your-message]', $newText, $mail['body']);

	$mail2 = $wpcf7->prop('mail_2');
	//$mail2['body'] = str_replace("[your-message]", $newText, $mail2['body']);

	$wpcf7->set_properties(array("mail" => $mail,"mail_2" => $mail2));

}

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