how to "extract" this?

[Anon]

Hi!

I have a gallup system and when reading contents of the gallup.dat -file (where the question and answers + amount of votes) are stored I encountered a problem.

The structure of gallup.dat -file is following:

What's the best game?
Transport Tycoon>>10
Tropico>>1

Railroad Tycoon>>7

I use file-function to read the whole stuff into an array and $array[0] is the question. But now I need to know how to make these option>>amount -pairs to assosiative array?

Like ...array(Transport Tycoon=>10; Tropico=>1.. etc

The problem is that all the stuff from the file is already in array (numerical array, not assosiative). If I could get assosiative array to work it's much more easier to do the rest of code, like "total value of votes = $array_values" :-)

Did you get the point? ;-)

[cordex]

I find that I'll try to help someone with a certain type of code and end up using it as a proposed solution to several problems. When all you have is a hammer, all problems start to look like a nail, I guess. Here again, back by popular demand, explode();

$newarray_ar = explode(">>", "Hitman: Codename 47>>10");

$newarray_ar[0] is now Hitman: Codename 47
$newarray_ar[1] is now 10