how to read output of var_export into a variable in PHP?

Question

the output is like below restored in a output.txt file:

array (
  'IMType' => '1',
  'Email' => '[email protected]',
  'SignupName' => 'test11',
  'Password' => '11111',
  'Encrypted' => '',
  'Confirm' => '11111',
  'OldPassword' => '',
  'Name' => 'test',
  'SignupProvinceText' => 'province',
  'SignupCity' => 'cityname',
  'Street' => 'street x.y',
  'SignupIndustry' => 'IT',
  'SignupCompany' => 'jobirn',
  'SignupJt' => 'engineer',
  'CellPhoneNum' => '',
  'linked_in' => '',
)

it's in fact output of var_export(xxx,true),but how to read it into a variable again?

Answer 1

like this:

$dumpStr = var_export($var,true);
eval('$somevar = ' . $dumpStr);

Answer 2

Why do you need to read it into a variable again? It's already in a variable!

Answer 3

Perhaps you want to serialize object and then unserialize? http://php.net/serialize