[Zope] how to pass value or array of values to DTML variable

Hi every body could any one tell me how to pass value or array of values to DTML variable/s for e.g in the search engin form if some one pass "california gre" in the text field have a name "TEXT" of the search and the result page where we are gone to display the results using database . before passing the query to database i would like to split the text which is been passed by the user and put it in to difffrent dtml-variables. like <dtml-var state> = <dtml-var _.string.split(TEXT,' '); But the above statement doesnot works . I need to solve this problem . Regards Manish Bhatia -------------------------------------------------------------- QuantumLink Communications, Bombay, India