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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 $new_array = array(); for($k = 0; $k < count($matches[3]); $k++) { $new_array[$matches[3][$k]] = $matches[5][$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 - 7.2.34, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.34, 8.3.0 - 8.3.35, 8.4.1 - 8.4.26, 8.5.0 - 8.5.11
array(3) { ["key1"]=> string(6) "value1" ["key2"]=> string(6) "value2" ["key3"]=> string(6) "value3" }
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