>>>Before I wrote my code, I test reduce(). It didn`t strip CHR(13), only CHR(10)
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>>Like I said, Vbscript.RegExp covers the issue just fine.
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>How about another, pure VFP solution, in just as many lines of code?
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>* Converts all carriage returns and line feeds to spaces
>lcString = CHRTRAN(lcString, CHR(13)+CHR(10),SPACE(1))
>* Reduce all strings of spaces to a single space
>DO WHILE SPACE(2)$lcString]
>	lcString = STRTRAN(lcString, SPACE(2), SPACE(1))
>ENDDO
>

More costly - can't put that in except through a UDF - all I do is create an object and use it.