unstring

When he looked at her neck he was reminded of how difficult it was to unstring a turkey.

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]

In the mean time, the same, or a similar end, may be attained, in the 2d PLACE, By splitting a duty on a commodity, so as to unstring the stimulus to smuggle, while we preserve the same, or perhaps require a greater amount, from the same subject than we had before.

Poke a hole in the tops and bottoms of these eggs, blow out the yolks and whites, unstring the diamonds and stick them through the holes...

Invaded thus, for want of better bands, His garland they unstring, and bind his hands

It is also possible to save the delimiters (this might prove useful if the delimiters were also some sort of text identifier) and to count the length of the data items we are unstringing.