Question

I am trying to parse the following string into an array.

$str = [0,"Victoria Station, Bus Station Stand",null,null,0,null,51.496169,-0.143633]

I am using

$result = explode(',', $str);

and am getting an array like this

Array ( [0] => [0 [1] => "Victoria Station [2] => Bus Station Stand" [3] => null [4] => null [5] => 0 [6] => null [7] => 51.496169 [8] => -0.143633] )

But I need “Victoria Station, Bus Station Stand” to be 1 item in the array. I understand that this could be achieved with regular expressions. But I am new to that. Your guidance would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

This looks like json to me try

$str = '[0,"Victoria Station, Bus Station Stand",null,null,0,null,51.496169,-0.143633]';
$json = json_decode($str, true);

echo "<pre>";
var_dump($json);

Output

array
  0 => int 0
  1 => string 'Victoria Station, Bus Station Stand' (length=35)
  2 => null
  3 => null
  4 => int 0
  5 => null
  6 => float 51.496169
  7 => float -0.143633