Storing ‘List’ in Pod

The Gravity Forms – Pods integration seems to work well, but I can’t figure out how to store a ‘List’ from GF into a Pod. The data appears to be stored as an array because I get the following when its stored into a textarea field:

a:4:{i:0;s:22:”DATA”;i:1;s:27:”DATA”;i:2;s:52:”DATA”;i:3;s:19:”DATA”;}

a:4 – 4 lines of data

i:0 (fist data line), s:22 (characters of data), : “DATA” (what’s being stored)

I just need to figure out the best way to store ‘Lists’ from GF into a Pod to display and later edit.

Hope you can help.