I guess it depends on your application. If you pass me a string with ",," embedded in it, I would assume that you intend for one of the elements to be empty. If it turns out that empty has no meaning, you can handle that case with more logic. My reason for mentioning the STRTRAN/ALINES technique is that it's the easiest way to separate a string and stuff an array.



>Charlie,
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>>Here's another technique for parsing strings.
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>>Replace the commas with CHR(13) using STRTRAN.
>>String = STRTRAN(m.String,',', CHR(13))
>>Now put each element in an array.
>>ALINES(aStrings, m.String)
>>FOR EACH String IN aStrings
>>   * Do something with each m.String.
>>ENDFOR
>>

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>It's interesting but not universal enough. What we can do if we have 2 commas ,(for example: "I,,the,12,etc.,," there a comma is an isolate case of a delimiter? We don't want to have additional empty members of array.