I looked at the OBJ spec found online and it doesn’t seem to say anything about whitespace requirements/restrictions… Then again, I don’t believe I’ve seen any files using double spaces.
A pretty simple fix could be to just strip the whitespace off of the elements in vertices.
[java]
for(int i=0; i<vertices.length; i++){
vertices = vertices.trim();
}
[/java]
Edit: I also wouldn’t hesitate to ask in their forums about this. There’s a chance that you catch the ear of the developer who wrote the exporter and may be able to offer some rationale http://www.makehuman.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=3