>I have a very long comma delimited string. I want to pull that data into a table. I was wondering what the easiest way to do it may be.
>
>The string looks something like this "a,b,a,b,a,b,a,b" etc.....
>where a is a measuerment like ".45032" and b is a gage number like "01"
>
>I was thinking of Doing a strtofile() then an append from file delimited. but that seems a little cumbersome. Does anyone know of a better way?

This works with VFP6, VFP7 and above have additional parameters on ALINES you can use.

* aInfo[x,2]
*      [x,1] = measurement
*      [x,2] = gage
*
* Convert comma separated list into array
*
cInfoList = ".45032,01,.12345,02"
ALINES(aInfo,STRTRAN(cInfoList,",",CHR(13)+CHR(10)))
DIMENSION aInfo[ALEN(aInfo,1)/2,2]	&& Make it a 2 dimensional array again

Whoops, forgot the part about the table.

APPEND FROM ARRAY aInfo