Mikey Knutson wrote:
> Is this even possible? I'm building a string, properly formatted, to create
> a named pair or associative array. The string is fine, and when I use it
> directly to create the array, all is well. When I try to use the var to
> create the array, I get an empty array (I think). Huh?
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> $myString = "'username' => 'password' , 'mickey' => 'mouse' , 'donald' =>
> 'duck'";
> $myArray = array($myString);
> print ("array val: $myArray[username]"); // get an empty string here
>
>
>
AFAIK you can't do what you're showing. This will work, but is not advised:
eval('$myArray = array(' . $myString . ');');
print ("array val: $myArray[username]"); // array val: password
Why are you needing to store the array indexes and values in a string
like this? Maybe we can give you an alternative approach.
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Thanks!
-Shawn
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