Ooops, that IS a shorter way ! > >>How could I remove spaces in between a string. >>Eg. a="ABC DEF GHI JKL" >>I would like the result to be "ABCDEFGHIJKL", removing all spaces in >>between. >>Pls advice, thank you. >Try something like this: > >STRTRAN(your_string," ","") > >Should do what you are looking for. > >HTH, >George > > >