\s* is probably not what you want.  * means "0 or more" so it would 
insert a space between every character.  I would use \s+ or \s{2,} instead.

--Ben Doom

Sonny Savage wrote:
> How about this?
> <cfset pageholder_tboutputed = REReplace(pageholder_tboutputed, "\s*", " ",
> "ALL")>
> 
> On Jan 21, 2008 3:13 PM, Nate Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> hello,
>>
>> I learned of of an issue with my whitespace reduction
>> method that is almost funny.
>>
>> I do the following to remove whitespace
>>
>> <cfsavecontent variable="pageholder_tboutputed">
>> PAGE CONTENTS.......
>> </cfsavecontent>
>> <cfset pageholder_tboutputed
>> =REReplace(pageholder_tboutputed,
>> "[[:space:]]{2,}","","ALL")>
>> <CFOUTPUT>#pageholder_tboutputed#</CFOUTPUT>
>>
>> What ended up happening today is that one of the
>> sources I pull in information from had double spaced
>> between words. so instead of the "The bear went home"
>> they had "The  bear  went home" which caused my method
>> to output "Thebearwent home"
>>
>> Is there any way around this? Or do I need to remove
>> my whitespace method for the time being?
>>
>> Thxs
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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