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Don't roll your own! Depending on your preference, use Taffy if you prefer a convention-based solution or PowerNap if you prefer a configuration-based solution. Also, frameworks like Coldbox and Mach-ii have built-in endpoints for RESTful web services too.
Use the reReplace function and a regular expression to strip out the characters you don't want.
Use the Clickatell API and the CFHTTP tag to send a message
Either upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion 9 and use CFIMAP *or* drop down to Java to set up the proper connection for CFPOP to function.
Use the way HTML forms work to your advantage (with proper validation) or construct dynamic form fields on the fly and extract the data for each unique record.