can use getwordcount and getwordnum to retrieve the words wanted.i give you the result in a cursor.

create cursor ycurs (xword c(20))
local m.partno,m.xw
m.partno='abc defg hijkl'
for i=1 to getwordcount(m.partno)
m.xw=getwordnum(m.partno,i)
if ! empty(m.xw)
insert into ycurs values ( m.xw)
endi
endfor

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