Arrays are your friend here. If that's too much trouble, you could switch to numtochar(N) with N < 9, or simply escape the commas on the way in and out, but still: arrays. Sent from my iPad On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote: > For example, a line contains an object's long ID + comma + object's loc