Format question

[Simon Lord]

I have a tricky issue where I want to run a script to remove double 
spaces in the script of an object but not damage any code which is 
actually injecting it into something.  To be clear, I want the 
following:

set the visible   of image "monkey"  to   true

... to look like this:

set the visible of image "monkey" to true

... but what i don't want to do is affect any code trying to do 
something with spaces.  For instance:

put "Hello    there" into fld 1

... depending on how many times I run my code to clean the extra spaces 
between words this script can end up looking like this:

put "Hellothere" into fld 1

So I guess what I'm saying is I don't want to affect spaces between 
quotes.

Any ideas?

Sincerely,
Simon