How to parse data type array columns?

Hi,

if you use array data type in your database design and query your tables with
PHP you get a string which represents the array. It can look something like
this:

[1:2]{{"Hallo", "Te\"st},"},{"Hallo", "Test"}}

It can even have another delimiter than "," if you change the type delimiter.

Has anybody already written a function to parse this array into an php array
structure? A simple explode doesn't work of course. The list offers a too
simple explode(",", ereg_replace("{[-]}", $string)). this works only with one
level and numeric types.

Has anybody already written a recursive function to parse the array string?

kind regards,
Janning