Parse array data and remove the first and last character

Does anyone know if there is a way开发者_运维技巧 to remove the first and last character of array data.

Basically the [ and ] from the data that is returned.

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foreach($array as $index => $d){
    $array[$index] = substr($d, 1, -1);
}

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As your comment confirmed it:

It sounds like you want to use json_decode ^[docs]. If your data is JSON, then don't try to parse it manually.