Hi Cetin,

Regarding your "older" method, I might suggest an alternative:

tcStr = "2222 3333 4444 5555"
tcStr = STRTRAN(tcStr, ' ', chr(13))

for i=1 to memlines(tcStr) && now tcStr may be treated like a 1 column array
 ...
endfor

Hugh


>*Older - for short lists this was fastest as I could see
>tcStr = "2222 3333 4444 5555"
>tcStr = chrtran(tcStr, " ",",")
>oDummy = createobject('Listbox')
>with oDummy
> .RowSourceType = 1 && Value
> .RowSource = tcStr
> dimension arrVals[.ListCount]
> for ix=1 to .ListCount
> arrVals[ix] = .List(ix)
> endfor
>endwith
>release oDummy
>Cetin