Am 18.09.2015 um 19:26 schrieb Allin Cottrell: First of all, thanks. Secondly, with respect to the consolidation, let me point out that the strsplit() function almost does what's needed: it uses whitespace to chop a string into several strings and returns them in an array. If the second argument were generalized (currently it's an integer to pick out one piece) to also allow a string, this string could define the character(s) to use for chopping up the string, like this: <hansl> string in = "ahem,yep,omg" strings out = strsplit(in, ",") # proposal </hansl> And 'out' would be a three-element array with "ahem", "yep", and "omg". And while I'm at it, perhaps a reverse function 'strjoin' could also be useful that takes an array of strings and concatenates them (with an optionally defined character), like this: <hansl> # use the string array 'out' from above string joined = strjoin(out, ";") </hansl> And 'joined' would result as "ahem;yep;omg". The new varnames() function could then be removed, I guess. thanks, sve