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<?php class NotJsonParser { public function convertPartsToObject(array $lines): array { $result = []; $result[]['items'] = &$items; foreach ($lines as $line) { if ($line[0] === '-') { // or however you want to identify the separator unset($items); $result[]['items'] = &$items; } else { $items[] = array_combine(['label', 'value', 'color'], explode('|', $line, 3)); } } return $result; } } $string = <<<STRING Label 1|80|default Label 2|100|default --- Frontend|80|red Backend|20|red --- Another Item 1|20|blue Another Item 2|20|blue - And another Item|20|blue STRING; $object = new NotJsonParser(); var_export($object->convertPartsToObject(explode(PHP_EOL, $string)));
Output for 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.33, 8.2.0 - 8.2.29, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4, 8.3.6 - 8.3.25, 8.4.1 - 8.4.12
array ( 0 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'Label 1', 'value' => '80', 'color' => 'default', ), 1 => array ( 'label' => 'Label 2', 'value' => '100', 'color' => 'default', ), ), ), 1 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'Frontend', 'value' => '80', 'color' => 'red', ), 1 => array ( 'label' => 'Backend', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'red', ), ), ), 2 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'Another Item 1', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'blue', ), 1 => array ( 'label' => 'Another Item 2', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'blue', ), ), ), 3 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'And another Item', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'blue', ), ), ), )
Output for 8.3.5
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 array ( 0 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'Label 1', 'value' => '80', 'color' => 'default', ), 1 => array ( 'label' => 'Label 2', 'value' => '100', 'color' => 'default', ), ), ), 1 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'Frontend', 'value' => '80', 'color' => 'red', ), 1 => array ( 'label' => 'Backend', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'red', ), ), ), 2 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'Another Item 1', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'blue', ), 1 => array ( 'label' => 'Another Item 2', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'blue', ), ), ), 3 => array ( 'items' => array ( 0 => array ( 'label' => 'And another Item', 'value' => '20', 'color' => 'blue', ), ), ), )

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