I have noticed that flash seems to be very slow at splitting a long string into an array. Anyone else noticed that?

I am pulling a list of files into flash using SWF Studio and into the flash varible called ssfilelist. ssFileList would then look something like this: ("myfile1.exe,myfile2.exe,myfile3.exe,etc...") for 80 files.

myfilearray = _parent.ssFileList.split(",");

The above code takes nearly 15 seconds to run with 80 files in it. Worse of all, it stops everything while is splits the string into an array. All movies stop.

Anyone know of a faster way to do it?

I am using a win 98SE on a p400.

BTW, i have split the code out into different frames and SWF studio grabs the files very fast, it is when it gets to splitting the string into an array that everything stops.

Jim