>Sooner or later lcRgb6 will actually be RGB3
>

lcRgb6="RGB(1,2,3,4,5,6)"
>dimension a[6]
>a=0
>for i=2 to getwordcount(m.lcRgb6, "(),")
>   a[i]=val(getwordnum(m.lcRgb6, i, "(),"))
>ENDFOR
>DISPLAY MEMORY LIKE a
>

>if really only a string "RGB(x,y,z)" is needed and lcRGB6 is always well formed,

>lcRGB1 = Alltrim(Left(m.lcRGB6, at(m.lcRGB6, ",", 3)-1) + ")" )
>lcRGB2 = "RGB(" + Alltrim(Subst(m.lcRGB6, at(m.lcRGB6, ",", 3)+1) )

>should work faster...

Yes, it would, but Jay said he didn't like the idea of getting into some hardly readable substr(... at(... )), and it seems he wanted to do it with getword*() but it didn't work. So this was just to show that it can be done that way - and now he has both options and can figure out why it didn't work the first time.

Though, this being Fox, I'm positive it can be done in another way... yes :)

lcR6="RGB(1,2,3,4,5,6)"
lcR6=chrtran(lcR6, "(),", chr(13))
alines(a, lcR6)

Just kidding :).