UNSTRING performance issue

Given a delimited string of variable length (string-variable), suppose
you are interested in the nth value in the string.

I'm currently using the following solution:

MOVE "," TO delimiter-variable
MOVE 1 TO string-pointer

PERFORM n TIMES

UNSTRING
string-variable DELIMITED BY delimiter-variable
INTO
string-field
WITH POINTER
string-pointer
ON OVERFLOW
SET unstring-error TO TRUE
EXIT PERFORM
END-UNSTRING

END-PERFORM


Obviously, the larger the string, the slower the performance of this
command.

I'm wondering if there is a faster way to do this that I am as yet
unaware of?

Any thoughts/ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

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