Hi guys. My first post and I'm not a developer or programmer so please don't be too harsh.

I am looking for a way to select a certain variable from a line read from a file. In REXX variables could be parsed (space delimited) using the function PARSE VAR as in the example below.

Say a line in a file was written as follows

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.

And I wanted to find out what the third word in the line was. I would write the REXX procedure as follows:

PARSE VAR [line read in] #var1 #var2 #var3 #var4

Which would give me an output of

THE
QUICK
BROWN
FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG

Of more succinctly I would simply select the variable in my code as follows:

SAY #var3

Which would display on the screen "BROWN".

I would like to do the same thing with Kixtart and I have looked at SPLIT but this does not seem to allow me to achieve this, e.g. choose which variable I want to work on. Am I doing something wrong? Any help or direction would be most appreciated.

Sorry for the long-winded example....

Kenno

kjmoule@mmm.com