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phparrayspreg-split
pgtips
pgtips

Reputation: 1338

How can I split this array in PHP?

Noob question. I have this:

Array
(
    [0] => address = 123 Something Street
    [1] => address2 = Something else
    [2] => city = Kalamazoo
    [3] => state = MI
    [4] => zip = 49097
    [5] => country = United States
)

but I want this:

Array
(
    [address] => 123 Something Street
    [address2] => Something else
    [city] => Kalamazoo
    [state] => MI
    [zip] => 49097
    [country] => United States
)

How do I do this? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (4)

FThompson
FThompson

Reputation: 28687

I don't believe there is any function to do this automatically for you, but I just wrote up the following.

$newArr = array();
foreach ($oldArr as $value) {
    $split = explode(" = ", $value, 2);
    $newArr[$split[0]] = $split[1];
}

Upvotes: 0

Adam Thornton
Adam Thornton

Reputation: 172

You need to loop through the array and break up the value into the bit before the ' = ' and the bit after. using these two pieces of data you can create a new array which is indexed by the first bit and has the value as the second bit.

$new_array = array();
foreach($your_array as $value)
{
    $chunks = explode(' = ', $value);
    $key = $chunks[0];
    $new_array[$key] = $chunks[1];
}

Upvotes: 3

CrimsonDiego
CrimsonDiego

Reputation: 3616

$arrayOriginal = Array
(
    [0] => address = 123 Something Street
    [1] => address2 = Something else
    [2] => city = Kalamazoo
    [3] => state = MI
    [4] => zip = 49097
    [5] => country = United States
);
$arrayNew = Array();
for($arrayOriginal as $value)
{
    $strArray = explode(" = ", $value, 2);
    $arrayNew[$strArray[0]] = $stArray[1];
}

A small thing to note, if your array is not likely to be exactly formatted, instead do:

for($arrayOriginal as $value)
{
    $strArray = explode("=", $value, 2);
    $arrayNew[trim($strArray[0])] = trim($strArray[1]);
}

This ensures that even values like "something = something" will be parsed correctly.

Upvotes: 1

Tom Hallam
Tom Hallam

Reputation: 1950

Try this:

$new_array = array();
foreach($your_array as $line) {
 list($key, $value) = explode('=', $line, 2);
 $new_array[$key] = $value;
}

Access $new_array.

Upvotes: 9

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