Indented list to multidimensional array

Question

I was surprised not to find an answer to this on SO (or elsewhere on the internet for that matter). It concerns a nested indented list which I want to convert into a multidi

Answer 1

I'm not going to write the recursive function, but to point you in a helpful direction, take a look at PHP's substr_count function. Based on this, you could count the number of tabs in front of each line and compare it with the number of tabs in the previous line to figure out if it's a child, sibling, etc.