>Howdy,
>
>is there a method in Squeak like:
>
>strtok() in C, or better yet "word 7 of line 3 of blah" in hypercard?

Yes, of course.

You can get a collection of tokens using String>>findTokens:  You can 
also get a line from a string using String>>lineNumber:  There are a 
gaZillion cool ways to manipulate string in class String, which you 
can peruse with the DoIt:

	String browse

The following block does the hypercard thing, albeit in a rough and 
ready fashion:

	hypercard := [:str :line :word |
		((str lineNumber: line) findTokens: ' ') at: word].

and

	string := 'now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer by this
son of York'

so that

	get value: string value: 2 value: 3

evaluates to 'summer'