Splitting string on blanks in 4GL?

Howdy, I have a bunch of strings which looks like "500 328 729", that I'd like to seperate by whitespace and store into integer variables - basically like: define str char(100) define counts array[3] of integer select value from table into str let counts = split(str, ...) .. after which counts[1] equals 500, counts[2] is 328, etc. What is the best way to do this? I thought of unloading str to an ascii file, using run to call a shell script or somesuch which would massage the unload file and produce a load file, which is the loaded into a suitable table created on the fly. Pretty horrible thought, yes? I haven't tried it yet, but I expect it to be a lot slower than my users would appreciate. Any input is welcomed. I'm running INFORMIX-4GL Version 4.11.UC2 on Solaris 2.3. -- Stig Jacobsen / shj@dknet.dk http://www.dknet.dk/~shj