Two ways I can think of off the top of my head:
$s = "('item','item2','item3')";
preg_match_all("/'(.*?)'/",$s,$regs);
$result = $regs[1];
or
$s = "('item','item2','item3')";
eval('$result = array'.$s.';');
Neither is very efficient though. eval() is particularly ugly.
-Rasmus
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alexander Ross wrote:
> If I have a string variable that is already of the form
> ('item','item2','item3') [including the parens and quotes in the string],
> is there an easy way to change that variable into an array??
> Array($var) doesn't work. Thanks
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