It has actually improved a lot since then. The UI has had changes, search is better, it has quote posts now. More usability enhancements are under active development.
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s lastpipe
string="Los Angeles, London, Belfast, New York"
echo "${string/, /,}" | readarray -d, -t arrayA
echo ${arrayA[0]}
echo ${arrayA[1]}
Also, the lastpipe option runs the readarray in the context of the current process.