Hi to the both of you! Wow, thanks for putting so much effort in this question, i am flashed 🙂 Thank you both, i tried all your suggestions, and Reinhard's code finally solved the problem. This line here was the game changer: _s=scan(clorres,_i,',','r'); The data is rather like from Reinhard's point 1. Case senstitivity is not required, the values are always the same, in every occurence. And you are sooo correct, working with these strings is awful! But we cannot change anything about this as this is raw data from a legacy database. Again, thank you both so much for helping me out! You had great and creative apporaches, i really learned something from you! Take care, best regards 🙂 Irina
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