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Anonymous
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Data quality

Hi All,

i have a column called name. it contain "firstname midname lastname".

Problem is that spaces between "firstname midname lastname" is not even. e.g. first (two spaces) mindname (one space)lastname.

how to make the spaces even(only one space between "firstname midname lastname")

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sunny_talwar

May be this

Replace(name, '  ', ' ') as name

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sunny_talwar

May be this

Replace(name, '  ', ' ') as name

Anonymous
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thanks for your reply. already got the same solution 

Anonymous
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Hello - you could also try this. 

SubField(Name,'  ',1)&' '&SubField(Name,'  ',2)

vkhassanov
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For any number of spaces inside:

Left(name,Index(name,' ')-1) & ' ' & Trim(Mid(name,Index(name,' '),Index(name,' ',-1)-Index(name,' '))) & ' ' & Trim(Right(name,Len(name)-Index(name,' ',-1)))