>>>>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
>
>That's not enough, since you transformed all two spaces into one space. You should call this function recursively. What's wrong in your opinion with FoxTools library? You don't have to re-invent the wheel. Some of the functions in FoxTools, though, might be written in not 100% efficient way (say, we have a discussion with Cetin about two years ago about FoxTools Words and WordNum functions and their unefficiency for huge texts).
>
>BTW, I believe Dragan Nedeljkovich had written this "reduce" function quite recently in one of the threads. Unfortunately, I don't remember specifics...

No, that's not true. This will replace all the spaces with nothing (second parameter)

Mark