extracting text in array with two delimiters

[jannoy]

to all php gurus
im working on an array which will extract and convert it into multi dimensional array

example
$data="hello;there,here,i,am,what;is,your,name,where;are,you,from";

the output should be

      hello  |     what  |    where
      there        is             are
      here         your         you
        i               name       from
       am

the delimiters are this
1. ";"-> should be the top
2.","-> should be the content of the top

so you will notice after the word "hello","what","where" there is a delimiter of ";"

[tekky]

would be easier to do if your data was like...

hello,there, here, i, am;what,is,your,name;where,are,you,from

then you would simply

$temp = explode(';',$data); //get sentences as arrays
/*
  ie: hello,there,here,i,am
       what,is,your,name....
 */
foreach $temp as $line
{
  //get each set of comma delimited sentences as $line
  $temp2 = explode(',',$temp);
  foreach $temp2 as $element
  {
     // get individual words as $element
     $arr[$x][$y] = $element //add each word to a 3d array by numerical indices.
     $y++; //increment y indice to store next word
  }
  $x++; //increment x indice to store next sentence
}

I think taht would work... but you would have to reformat your data... the way you ahve it... wouldnt work well at all from what I can tell....