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copied!<p>As noted in the comments above, I would try to modify the <code>$matches</code> if at all possible - it would be far easier to work with associative arrays for this use case.</p> <p>However, taking it on face value that you're stuck with that data structure, here's one probably very naive approach... </p> <p>this assumes that your data will always come out in the format <code>[key, value, key, value, ...]</code>:</p> <pre><code><?php // original data $matches = array( array( 'Age:', '22 Yrs.', 'Ethnicity:', 'Caucasian', 'Location:', 'London, United Kingdom', 'Location:', ) ); // chunk $matches sub-array into pairs // we want each chunk to contain two elements, // the first will be the key and the second will be the value $chunks = array_chunk($matches[0], 2); // apply a callback to each array element $pairs = array_map(function($pair) { // some basic error checking... // if the matches subarray count is uneven for some reason if (count($pair) !== 2) { return array(); } // assign each element in the pair list($key, $val) = $pair; // some basic key normalisation // remove non alpha chars and lowercase $key = strtolower($key); $key = preg_replace('/\W+/', '', $key); // return a key value pair return array($key => $val); }, $chunks); // iterate over the pairs // and extract into the current scope... foreach ($pairs as $pair) { extract($pair); } // and you should now be able to echo your values echo $age; echo $ethnicity; echo $location; </code></pre> <p>Result:</p> <pre><code>22 Yrs. Caucasian London, United Kingdom </code></pre> <p>Hope this helps :) To reiterate, I would really recommend restructuring the original data structure because the above solution is hardly optimal.</p>

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