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<?php $str = '[ ["key1", "value1"], ["key2", "value2"], ["key3", "value3"] ]'; preg_match_all('/(\[("(.*?)"), ("(.*?)")\])+/i', $str, $matches); //Now we have in $matches[3] and $matches[5] the keys and the values //and we would now turn this into an array using a loop $new_array = array(); foreach($matches[3] as $k => $arr) { $new_array[$arr] = $matches[5][$k]; } var_dump($new_array);
Output for 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4, 8.3.6
array(3) { ["key1"]=> string(6) "value1" ["key2"]=> string(6) "value2" ["key3"]=> string(6) "value3" }
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(3) { ["key1"]=> string(6) "value1" ["key2"]=> string(6) "value2" ["key3"]=> string(6) "value3" }

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