>>Has anyone removed extra spaces from a sentence stored in a variable? How is it done?
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>What is your definition of extra spaces? Example please
If you want to remove 2 (or more) consecutive spaces in the text:
DO WHILE " " $ YourText
YourText = STRTRAN(YourText," "," ")
ENDDO
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