b = CHRTRAN(a, " ", "")

CHRTRAN is MUCH faster than STRTRAN (as it should be since it's looking for characters not strings). SPACE(1) is slower than " ", and SPACE(0) also (and useless also!).

Vlad

>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.