php - 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 it with explode(), but that gives me this:

array('0' => 'key',
      '1' => 'value')

The original $strVar is already the result of an exploded string, and I'm looping over all the values of the resulting array.

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;