How to extract individual elements from a JSON str

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I want to extract the values - Screen Name, Name, ID, Profile Picture URL from the data given below :

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What is a fast and working preg pattern to extract values from above data?

Answer 1

Your data is in JSON format. You can use json_decode() to convert it to a PHP array.