Hi David,

Use Regular expressions:

Regex re = new Regex(@"\b\w*\b");
MatchCollection mc = re.Matches("See Dick Run");
foreach(Match m in mc)
{
   Console.WriteLine(m.Value);
}

(I didn't test the code, but it *should* be mostly correct.

HTH,
Bill Priess MCP

Thanks for the help, Bill and Nick.

I tried split(), but it had some issues.  In particular, given "See Dick
run." the third word that it returned would be "run.", where what I wanted
was "run".  (The period isn't part of the word.)  

The function I'm looking for would actually have to be quite sophisticated,
because the application allows the user to select a language, and so the
function would have to work with whatever rules were appropriate for the
culture of the string.  I can come up with the correct rules for English and
French, but after that, I get a bit lost.  

I was hoping that maybe the wizards who did all this .Net Framework
globalization stuff had already tackled the problem.  It was a long shot, but
sometimes I am amazed at what is buried in there, so I was hoping.

I think I'll have to use the regular expression route, which I hadn't
thought of before, and count on user feedback to improve the situation for
languages that don't seem to work.