[RESOLVED] Explode Question

[Runda]

Is there a way to eplode a string like this:

$str = "word1:value1
word2:value2
word3:value3
word4:value4
word5:value5"

so that it creates an array like this:

$array = array('word1' => value1, 'word2' => value2, 'word3' => value3, 'word4' => value4, 'word5' => value5);

The string is delimited by a colon between key and value (key:value) and each pair is delimited by a black return (\n)

Any and all help appreciated,

Runda

[bradgrafelman]

Something like this?

$str = "word1:value1
word2:value2
word3:value3
word4:value4
word5:value5";

$temp_array = explode("\n", $str);
$array = array();

foreach($temp_array as $value) {
	$temp = explode(':', $value);
	$array[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
}

Note that this script will work if you edit the $str on Unix or Windows, NOT Mac - Mac uses a CR as a line ending, so my first explode() statement wouldn't see it as a line break.

If you wanted to make sure that all formats of line breaks are accepted (CR, LF, CRLF), you would replace that $temp_array declaration with something like this:

$temp_array = split("\r|\n|\r\n", $str);