How to convert string to array?

Question

I need to convert string

\"name1\", \"b\", \"2\", \"name2\", \"c\", \"3\", \"name3\", \"b\", \"2\", ....

to an array like

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Answer 1

If you do not care about the array keys being numeric, you can do:

$string = 'name1, b, 2, name2, c, 3, name3, b, 2';
print_r( array_chunk( explode(',', $string), 3 ) );