"Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> "Malcolm Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 

Oops, sorry. I hit the send button by mistake while aiming 
for the File menu!

>> Any suggestions for how to normalize and compress whitespace in a
>> string?

>> I know I can use regular expressions to accomplish the above, but
>> thought that might be too heavy handed.

regex is probably the most elegant way of doing this just because 
you can combine what would otherwise a lot of individual operations 
into a single complex operation which will probably be faster.

Also the regex doesn't sound like it would be overly complex.

Alan G

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