On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:50:11AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Hi all
> I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, 
> for use with a community website I am working on.
> 
> I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of 
> whitespace. I am wondering whether there is a quick way to remove the 
> whitespace, either in the spreadsheet, or in the csv file? I am guessing 
> a regular expression could do it, but I am no regular expression expert.

I should clarrify my needs a bit. There are text strings in this file 
that have spaces between words. The whitespace is only at the end of 
fields, and all text strings have quotes around them. I also think this 
whitespace is between the last character, and the quote in the text 
string.
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