>>>Is there a function where you can take a string which is delimited and convert the values in a string into an array. ex "2222 3333 4444 5555"?
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>>ALINES() will do that for you, at least in VFP 8.
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>>? ALINES(laX,"1111 2222 3333 4444",.f.," ")
>>? lax[1] && 1111
>>? lax[2]
>>? lax[3]
>>? lax[4] && 4444
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>>The 4th parameter is the character to use to parse the list. Without that parsing at " " characters you would only get one line.
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>ALINES() is available starting in VFP7 :)

Nope, it was introduced in VFP6. However, 4th parameter was added in VFP7. In VFP6 you would convert delimiter to CHR(13).

lcStr = "1111 2222 3333 4444"
? ALINES(laX,CHRTRAN(lcStr, SPACE(1), CHR(13)))