Define 2D array with loops in php

Question

I have an array $rows where each element is a row of 15 tab-delimited values. I want to explode $rows into a 2D array $rowData where e

Answer 1

for ($j=0; $j<15; $j++) {
    $rowData[$j] = explode("\t", $rows[$j]);
}

To expand: The problem with the following code:

$rowData = array([$i] => array (explode("   ", $rows[$j])));

is that you don't appear to know what the different things you've written mean precisely.

A call to array() returns a new array with the indicated elements. So array (explode(" ", $rows[$j])) yields an array with a single element, namely the array returned by explode(). And you're wrapping that in another call to array(), specifying the loop variable $i as the key corresponding to that element. Also, you're using the assignment symbol =, which means that every time you go through the loop, $rowData is being completely overwritten - what you wanted was to add new elements to it without getting rid of the old ones.