Parsing .Net array like string to PHP array

Question

A shipping service is providing me with this weird text format response, after some research i found it is very close to a .net array and i am trying to convert to PHP so i can do something useful with it.

My questions:

What is this format?

Is there any PHP function i could use to parse it?

City[0] = "Elghorashi";
State[0] = "";
ZipCode[0] = "";
CCity[0] = "Elghorashi";
CState[0] = "";
CZipCode[0] = "";
City[1] = "Abugibha";
State[1] = "";
ZipCode[1] = "";
CCity[1] = "Abugibha";
CState[1] = "";
CZipCode[1] = "";

Thanks

PHP variables and arrays have preceding $ symbol, unless those are constants.. — AyB
– AyB, Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 12:45
That looks like a var_dump of a php array. Are you using a var_dump to output that or is that the raw value being returned? — Joe Meyer
– Joe Meyer, Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 13:05

Joe Meyer · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-15 13:14:48Z

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Here's a quick little snippit I whipped up to convert a string that looks like a PHP array into an actual PHP array. To be clear the $newArray variable is where the array is created to.

$string = 'City[0] = "Elghorashi"; State[0] = ""; ZipCode[0] = ""; CCity[0] = "Elghorashi"; CState[0] = ""; CZipCode[0] = ""; City[1] = "Abugibha"; State[1] = ""; ZipCode[1] = ""; CCity[1] = "Abugibha"; CState[1] = ""; CZipCode[1] = "";';
$string = substr($string, 0, -1);

$arr = explode('; ', $string);
$newArray = [];
foreach($arr AS $value){
    $keyVals = explode(' = ', $value);
    preg_match_all('/^(.*?)\[([0-9]+)\]$/', $keyVals[0], $matches);
    $value = is_string($keyVals[1]) ? substr($keyVals[1], 1, -1) : $keyVals[1];
    $newArray[$matches[2][0]][$matches[1][0]] = $value;
}

answered Apr 15, 2014 at 13:14

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