Help with lists and Numbers - how can I separate data from one column?

I have a series of data entries that have two or three pieces of information listed in one column (it was a list copied from the Internet). My data is in this form all in one column (ie Column A):
XXXX -- YYYY, ZZZZ
I want to be able to easily split that data into three columns (A, B, and C) without having to go through and manually separate all of the entries? I'd ideally like to have XXXX in one column, the '--' removed, YYYY in another column, and ZZZZ in a third column, like this:
Column A Column B Column C
====== ====== ======
XXXX YYYY ZZZZ
Is this possible? Any help is appreciated.

BlooGoo
Open or paste your material in your favorite texteditor. TextEdit will suffice but there are better applications. Make sure your material is consistent, especially that there are no stray characters or extra spaces studded in the text. You can do this by using the clean up routine as described below.
1. Copy the set of characters you want to replace. In this case " -- " Note that there are spaces on each side of the dashes and you want to get rid of those.
2. Open the *Find and Replace* dialogue:
+Menu > Edit > Find > Find…+ (or command f)
Paste the " -- " into the Find: field, then type a comma in the Replace: field or
Copy and paste a tab from the document or
Click on the Advanced button and enter a tab using the Insert… button that appears.
3. Click *Replace All.*
Repeat as necessary. If it doesn't seem to work, copy and paste the bits that stick, usually there is something not visibly different but different as far as the computer iust concerned.
When you are finished save the results as a comma or tab delimited delimited .txt file and reopen it in Numbers.
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