import re


def clean_val(val):
	"""
	Returns cleaned value after replacing underscores (`'_'`) and asterisks (`'*'`) with
	an empty whitespace.

	:param val:	Raw parsed string
	:type val: str

	:return:
		A :py:class:`str` object after removing underscores and asterisks
	"""
	return re.sub(r'[_*]', ' ', val).strip()