How to split a string and make an array of integers in crystal report

Question

I have a string with set of employee IDs separated by an _(Underscore). What i want to do is to split that into separate strings and convert them to integers and save them

Answer 1

//create an array of strings by parsing a underscore-delimited string field
Stringvar Array strings := Split({table.string_field}, "_");

//empty numeric array; sized to match
Numbervar Array numbers;
Redim numbers[Ubound(strings)];

//populate array
Numbervar i;
for i := 1 to Ubound(strings) do (
  numbers[i] := ToNumber(strings[i])
);

//return
numbers;