>>>Just want to add that in my testing, ALINES() are much, much faster than the GETWORD*() functions. For a short string, it probably won't make much difference, but done repeatedly or for long strings, it'll be visible. (Mike, I know you know this; adding it for Rick.)
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>>I didn't exhaustively check this code. It may have bugs. I also altered Walter's algorithm slightly to provide a comma-space between each item. And on each item, I only process if a comma is found somewhere in the string.
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>Here's one that shows iteration for various length strings in 100-element increments, and in 10-element increments up to 50. ALINES() becomes considerably faster the larger the element list. The crossover seems to happen around 40 elements.

Right, that matches my experience. ALINES() is linear. GETWORDxxx() is not.

Tamar