ok i meant to comment on this yesterday... but work pulled me away.

I was noticing that basically you have a string that is build like this. "item1*item2*item3" and you want to turn it into a comma delimited string with quotes like this "item1","item2","item3"

Code:

$data = "item1*item2*item3"
$data = '"'+Join(Split($data,'*'),'","') + '"'

? $data