>>>>>>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
>
>So, you would end with MarkGoldin. I'm not sure, this is what you want :)

If a string is 'mark goldin' then yes, but isn't that what you want?
Mark