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<?php $corrupted_byte_counts = <<<STRING a:10:{s:16:"submit_editorial";b:0;s:15:"submit_orig_url";s:13:"www.bbc.co.uk";s:12:"submit_title";s:14:"No title found";s:14:"submit_content";s:12:"dnfsdkfjdfdf";s:15:"submit_category";i:2;s:11:"submit_tags";s:3:"bbc";s:9:"submit_id";b:0;s:16:"submit_subscribe";i:0;s:15:"submit_comments";s:4:"open";s:5:"image";s:19:"C:fakepath100.jpg";} STRING; $repaired = preg_replace_callback( '/s:\d+:"(.*?)";/s', function ($m) { return 's:' . strlen($m[1]) . ":\"{$m[1]}\";"; }, $corrupted_byte_counts ); echo "corrupted serialized array:\n$corrupted_byte_counts"; echo "\n---\n"; echo "repaired serialized array:\n$repaired"; echo "\n---\n"; print_r(unserialize($repaired)); // unserialize repaired string

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