Trying to explode() a string

[Moore]

the string holds multiple cases of a category id and a last visited timestamp like so..

 

(cat_id).(last_visited)/(cat_id).(last_visited)

example:

ann.1275669173/sugg.1275669055/upd.1275668000

 

what i want to do is create an array where the key is the category id (before '.') and the value is the timestamp (after '.'), like so:

 

$New[ann] would equal 1275669173

$New[sugg] would equal 1275669055

$New[upd] would equal 1275668000

 

and so on.. i hope someone can help out here.. i'm pretty stuck

[TheBG]

explode on the '/' which will give you an array of array['name' and array['time'] then just loop through that array.

[Alex]

$str = 'ann.1275669173/sugg.1275669055/upd.1275668000';
$new = array();
foreach(explode('/', $str); as $part){
$s = explode('.', $part);	
$new[$s[0]] = $s[1];
}