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How to compress space in string?
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23/05/2003 04:42:46
 
 
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23/05/2003 04:29:15
Lutz Scheffler (Online)
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00792083
Message ID:
00792096
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23
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I have a string like
>>>
>>>"IOBJ_IX I,PROJE_T_IX I,PARENT_IX I,ITYP I,ISUBTYP I"
>>>
>>>and would like to transform it to
>>>
>>>"IOBJ_IX I,PROJE_T_IX I,PARENT_IX I,ITYP I,ISUBTYP I".
>>>
>>>IOW I like to reduce multiple occurences of Space to one Char.
>>>
>>>What is the best command to use?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>Agnes
>>
>>
>>cStr = "ABC  XYZ  123"
>>? StrTran(cStr, "  ", " " ) && Replace double spaces with single spaces
>>
>
>Hi Jos,
>
>Yes, thats correct. But this works for double only. If they are tripple or higher it fails.
>ok.
>

Agnes

In this case I think you will need to use a loop to process the source string checking for consecutive spaces and remove them from a destination string?

HTH
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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