Parsing data and unmerging cells

Does anyone know how to parse data in Numbers? This is the "text to columns" feature in excel, that allows you to select a vertical range of cells, and have it parse the data into different columns based on a decision rule (e.g. fixed width, or particular separators?)
Similarly, I am also trying to "unmerge" cells. The buttons under "Merge and split" in the Table Inspector does not do what I need, since it actally creates new columns in the spreadsheet, rather than split the cell into existing columns. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks to all for the responses, but they do not resolve the underlying questions.
1) Regardless of whether there are an even or odd number of columns, Numbers still seems to add columns, rather than split the cell into existing columns, when I use the merge / split function in the Table Inspector. The only "work-around" I've come up with (if you can call it that) is to go to the nearest column that does not have any merged cells, add a column to the right or left, and then copy and paste the non-merged cells, and retype the merged cells from the old column into the unmerged cells of the new column. Very clunky.
2) Regarding parsing, if I have to get involved in text functions, then it only helps me do fixed width text-to-columns, and it is also quite clunky. If I want to parse using tabs, spaces, commas, etc. do I really need to save the contents of the cells into a separate text file, and then re-import??? There has to be a better way, no?

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