split array into other arrays

[stephdumais]

Hi, while my main problem was answered in my previous post, there is something related yet independant of that problem that I havent managed to figure out yet.

How would I go about splitting an array into 3 arrays by exploding it's string elements?

example:

$bigarray = array(
'part1-part2-part3',
'apple1-apple2-apple3',
'orange1-orange2-orange3'
)

From this I would like to create:

$first_parts = array(
'part1',
'apple1',
'orange1'
)

$second_parts = array(
'part2',
'apple2',
'orange2'
)

$third_parts = array(
'part3',
'apple3',
'orange3'
)

Now I know I have to use the following somewhere:

explode('-',$value);

But how?

[drew010]

$bigarray = array(
'part1-part2-part3',
'apple1-apple2-apple3',
'orange1-orange2-orange3'
);

$first = array();
$second = array();
$third = array();

foreach($bigarray as $one) {
  $parts = explode("-", $one);
  $first[] = $parts[0];
  $second[] = $parts[1];
  $third[] = $parts[2];
}

something like that could work, of course if you switch up the number of arrays and parts you may need to modify it a bit.

[stephdumais]

thanks, this is perfect 🙂