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Dynamic array keys

I have an array $Values
which is set up like this

$Values
  1
  2
  3
  a
    b
      c
  4

which is nested.
and I have a key like this: $key = "a"]["b"]["c";
Can I now do: Values[$key], ti get the value in c ?

@Edit
Simply said: I want to get the value from array $Values[“a”][“b”][“c”] By doing $Values[$key]. What should my key be then?

Answer 1

No, but you can extract the result:

$Values = array( '1' => 'ONE',
                 '2' => 'TWO',
                 '3' => 'THREE',
                 'a' => array( 'b' => array( 'c' => 'alphabet') ),
                 '4' => 'FOUR'
               );

$key = '"a"]["b"]["c"';

$nestedKey = explode('][',$key);
$searchArray = $Values;
foreach($nestedKey as $nestedKeyValue) {
    $searchArray = $searchArray[trim($nestedKeyValue,'"')];
}

var_dump($searchArray);

Will only work if $key is valid.

Now how do you get in a situation with a key like this anyway? Perhaps if you explained the real problem, we could give you a real answer rather than a hack.