Howard

This one is impossible: SPLIT($string)
Because default split character is allready space, so it cannot be used because of backwords compatibility

This one Split($string,"")
Might be the solution, if Ruud wil make the change

It could be a great tool to find the first different char when comparing two strings

I see that Shawn wishes for this functionality too,
I suspect You both for for this wish to make an easy translates from other programming languages

I'll allso vote for this even if an UDF to split a string into an array of chars only needs about 5 lines.

-Erik