condense whitespace to single space?

[Andres Corrada]

k wrote:
> 
> How do I condense the sections of spaces in this string:
> 
> "abc              def         ghi"
> 
> into single spaces?
> 
> "abc def ghi"

One way to do this that avoids using regular expressions is:

stringParts = string.split( stringToSplit )
reconstitutedString = string.join( stringParts )
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