Re: Eval string to array

Jochem Maas wrote:

Gerard Samuel wrote:

Im trying to evaluate a string representation of the output of var_export(), as an array. To make a long story short, Im using curl to fetch another php page, that uses var_export to echo out php data structures. The fetched data via curl, is a string. Something like -> array ( 'foo' => 'bar', )

something LIKE? or exactly that? anyway I don't have problems with this... php -r ' eval("\$arr = array ( \"foo\" => \"bar\", );"); $arr1 = var_export($arr, true); eval("\$arr2 = $arr1;"); var_dump($arr,$arr1,$arr2); ' ...took me a couple of mins to figure out how you could be....

For now, exactly like. This is what I extracted from your example for it to work -> $ret = str_replace("\n", '', curl_exec($this->curl_handle)); eval("\$arr = $ret;"); $arr1 = var_export($arr, true); var_dump($arr);

I would like to convert this to a real array. Im currently trying this -> $ret = curl_exec($this->curl_handle); $str = '$array = $ret;';

this is your problems. its to do with string interpolation. your exec() call is equivelant to $array = $ret; guess what that makes $array? so it should be: exec("\$array = $ret;"); which will replace the string $ret into the string to be exec()'ed. alternatively: exec('$array = '.$ret.';'); geddit?

gotit

eval($str); var_dump($ret, $array);

next time paste the actual var_dump output, its easier. :-)

It was in the original email. Just not where you thought it would have been ;) Thanks for your help.