# AS2:: Breaking up a string

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**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-breaking-up-a-string/244527 "2007-11-19T12:31:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-breaking-up-a-string/244527/1 "2007-11-19T12:31:54Z")

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I have a string that looks something like this:

00110; book1,book2,book3,: 6

What I need to do it spilt it up into sperate values by the semi colon. so in the end it would be like

String1 = 00110  
String2 = book1,book2,book3  
String3 = 6

Can anyone give me any ideas on how to go about it?