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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:58:18 -0000, Jeremy <jeremy0505_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>I am not familiar with TRANSLATE (I know it's not new but I
>never found the need to use until now (?))
>
>So to get from:
>'the cat sat on the mat'
>to
>'the cat sat on the mat'
>
>using a TRANSLATE statement would be?
... impossible, I think, since translate does simple single-character transliterations, whereas the OP wants pairs of spaces turned into single spaces.
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