What are you trying to do? If you want a list of words wouldn't you want to parse the 'text' rather than the 'htmlText', which includes a bunch of HTML markup? You can use the split() method of String to create an Array. For the first argument pass a RegExp representing one or more whitespace characters, since the words might not be separated by only a single space character. - Gordon
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jmfillman Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] TextArea htmltext parsing How would I go about taking the htmltext of a TextArea and parsing it based on a space and assigning each piece to an Array or ArrayCollection?