Woo, got 99 bytes in Ruby.

Here's a handy tool to get your code size.

http://mothereff.in/byte-counter

Aha, down to 80 bytes! Try to beat me

60 in Golfscript.

Processing the new solution tomorrow.

Can we get some official clarification on input format, JWinslow23/willrandship? The main questions that come to mind are:

• Are words/clusters composed of alphanumeric characters, any printable characters, or something in between?
• Are leading, trailing, or duplicated (successive) spaces valid?

A good way to solidify all of these rules at once could be to specify a regular expression for valid input.

Well, if you use regular expressions, now you got TWO problems.

Words are made up of any printable characters except for the space. Trailing, leading, and repeating spaces are valid, but shall be deleted so there is only one space between words upon output.

Words are made up of any printable characters except for the space. Trailing, leading, and repeating spaces are valid, but shall be deleted so there is only one space between words upon output.

Are we sure this is the official ruling? Because when I asked willrandship his thoughts in IRC yesterday, he gave basically the opposite answers; words made up of alphanumeric characters only, and no trailing, leading, or repeating spaces. I personally prefer willrandship's view, because it gives a better chance to languages that don't have string splitting/regex functions and generally allows for more golfed/hacky solutions.

You know what? Let's just assume no trailing, leading, or repeating spaces, and all alphanumeric characters. That would bring my solution down from 465 bytes to about 280 bytes.

Hello there, I have been reading some sections of Omnimaga for several months now (mostly the Casio and HP sections), and I finally decided to register so I can participate in this contest. After registering I found out that I need 5 posts to be able to send PMs, and I'm not the type of user who then posts in 5 random topics, so ... shall I just put my programs in spoilers, or what should I do?
(Edited to add: That's at least what some thread in the news section said. Now I see a PM icon below your user text which wasn't there before, but trying to use that will probably fail.)
I have written solutions in Java (190 bytes including a single-letter class name), XTend (a language implemented on top of Java; 160 bytes, with the same single-letter class name), Haskell (156 bytes, again including a single-letter function name) and SysRPL (79 bytes without name in compiled form, but due to the on-calc decompiler that's a feasible format for storage, you only lose pretty formatting and comments).
Even though not required, I tried throwing strings with non-alphanumeric characters and duplicate / leading / trailing spaces at my programs to see what happens. Java and XTend handle other characters just fine, the spaces are retained (can be fixed with 17 more bytes for Java and 9 for XTend). Haskell removes those spaces, but it might treat newlines and tabs as spaces. SysRPL keeps the spaces, but with 5 more bytes that's fixed. It also treats at least newlines as spaces, maybe tabs as well.