Breaking up a string into an array, PHP - php

Question

I have a string that looks like this:
$dash_access = "1-10:rw,14:rw|10-10:ro,14:ro";
My goal, is to break this string up into an array. I think I'm close, but can't quite figure it out. I want my array structure to look like this:
$array = Array
(
[1] => Array
(
[10] => rw
[14] => rw
)
[10] => Array
(
[10] => ro
[14] => ro
)
)
This is what I have so far, but it's not working.
$dash_access_split = explode("|",$dash_access);
for ($a=0;$a<count($dash_access_split);$a++) {
$split1 = explode("-", $dash_access_split[$a]);
$split2 = explode(",", $split1[1]);
for ($b=0;$b<count($split2);$b++) {
$split3 = explode(":", $split2[$b]);
$dash_access_array[$split1[0]][] = $split3[0];
$dash_access_array[$split1[0]][] = $split3[1];
}
}

Answer 1

Think of it as crumbling a cookie. Break it into progressively smaller pieces and process each piece accordingly.
Something like this should work
$dashAccess = "1-10:rw,14:rw|10-10:ro,14:ro";
$outArray = [];
foreach (explode('|', $dashAccess) as $bigPiece) {
list($medKey, $medPiece) = explode('-', $bigPiece);
$outArray[$medKey] = [];
foreach (explode(',', $medPiece) as $smallPiece) {
list($crumbleKey, $crumblePiece) = explode(':', $smallPiece);
$outArray[$medKey][$crumbleKey] = $crumblePiece;
}
}
var_dump($outArray);
Here's a fiddle

Answer 2

<?php $dash_access = "1-10:rw,14:rw|10-10:ro,14:ro";
$big_array=explode('|',$dash_access);
$small_array=array();
foreach($big_array as $key=>$value)
{
$small_array[]=explode('-',$value);
foreach($small_array as $key => $value)
{
$chunk=explode(',',$value[1]);
foreach($chunk as $value1)
{
$chunk_small=explode(':',$value1);
$result[$value[0]][$chunk_small[0]]=$chunk_small[1];
}
}
}
print_r($result);
http://codepad.org/sKZyDu2m