Splitting $ into multidimensional array

[Anon]

How can I split a string into a multidimensional array?...

For example, I have a text file containing:
1|Head
2|Arms
1|Belly
2|Hands
10|Fingers
2|Legs
2|Feet
10|Toes

I then load this above file into a string, blah, blah, then I need to split it into a multidimensional array, so that...

print $myArray[0][num]." ".$myArray[0][bodypart];
...prints '1 Head'.

print $myArray[4][num]." ".$myArray[4][bodypart];
...prints '10 Fingers'.

or more oddly!...
print $myArray[4][num]." ".$myArray[1][bodypart];
...prints '10 Arms'.

[Anon]

have you looked at the explode function?

[Anon]

Yes, I can see how that gets my string into a 'normal' array, but I could work out how to use it to split my string into a multidimensional array.

[amcgrath]

What you want to do is read the file into an array and then split the value into 2 separate pieces. Try this:

$data = file("/usr/local/erp/htdocs/bp.txt");
while(list($k,$v) = @each($data)) {
list($num,$part) = split('[|]',$v);
$myArray[$k]["num"] = $num;
$myArray[$k]["part"] = $part;
}

Now, each index of $myArray will have "num" and "part" corresonding to the file. Let me know if this works for you or not.

[Anon]

Beautiful. Cheers mate.