Question

I have strings like var=test;path=test.html

I want to convert these kind of strings like the array printed below :

Array
{
    var  => test
    path => test.html,
}

I tried to use PHP's explode function for this task, but this is converting the string to associative array, and then i decided to convert that associate array to the one shown above.

But my own code isn’t what i’m looking for, ’cause it contain 2 times PHP's explode function and some foreach loops, thus my own code will not stand in the department of performance for such a simple task.

Your help will be much appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

You could use preg_match_all to get an array of keys, and an array of values, then combine them into an associative array using array_combine:

$str = "var=test;path=test.html";
preg_match_all("/([^;=]+)=([^;=]+)/", $str, $matches);
$result = array_combine($matches[1], $matches[2]);