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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: parsing print_r() output with preg_match_all()
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Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes:

> On 1/7/2016 4:03 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
>> Jerry,
>> 
>>> XML comes to mind. Human readable and made to
>>> be easily parsed.
>> 
>> Its also like shooting a cannon at a musquito. :-)
<snip>
>
> Not really.  It's exactly the type of job XML was designed for.  And it
> is easily created and read.

These things are all relative.  If, as I now suspect, a simple
json_encode and json_decode call will do the job, XML is going to look
over the top unless there's an xml_encode and xml_decode pair that can
serialise standard PHP types (I'm not up-to-date with the latest PHP but
I could not find such functions).

-- 
Ben.