>>how about this
>>

>>thistemp = 'Iain           Brodie'
>>? subs(thistemp, 1, at(' ', thistemp)-1)+' '+subs(thistemp, rat(' ',thistemp)+1)
>>

>
>Hi Iain,
>
>Just check reduce function from FoxTools (which, of course, needs to be loaded first). So, it's a one line of code: lcString=reduce(m.lcString) :)
What about this:
abc = STRTRAN(abc, ' ', '')

Mark