explode() into $key=>$value pair

Question

I have this:

$strVar = \"key value\";

And I want to get it in this:

array(\'key\'=>\'value\')

I tried

Answer 1

Don't believe this is possible in a single operation, but this should do the trick:

list($k, $v) = explode(' ', $strVal);
$result[ $k ] = $v;