>Ok, don't know where my mind is today because I have become stumped on what should be a simple function. I have the following value:
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>mvalue = "John A. Doe             555 MyStreet   "
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>and I want mvalue to equal:
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>mvalue="John A. Doe 555 Mystreet"
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>Yet I cannot seem to do it without removing all of the spaces...

Try

x = "John A. Doe             555 MyStreet   "
Do while Space(2) $ x
	x = Strtran(x, Space(2), Space(1))
EndDo 
?x