How about this:
t="HELLO,,,WORLD,FROM,,,,TEK-TIPS"
?t
HELLO,,,WORLD,FROM,,,,TEK-TIPS
?STRTRAN(STRTRAN(STRTRAN(t,",,",","),",,",","),","," ")
HELLO WORLD FROM TEK-TIPS
Of course, more "," would require additional STRTRAN ...
I came looking for another answer and got pulled into Mike's exercise...