Format question

[Robert Brenstein]

>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

After a cup of tea, a simpler script:

put empty into newscript
repeat for each line sLine in oldscript
  put empty into nLine
  repeat for each word sWord in sLine
    put sWord & space after nLine
  end repeat
  put cr into last char of nLine
  put nLine after newscript
end repeat
delete last char of newscript

This takes advantage of metatalk's little quirk: text inside double 
quotes is considered a single word when using "each word".

Robert Brenstein