how convert this string json PHP -

i have following string

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how can convert json data php use in json_decode()?

it's easy: looks json, isn't. use following code transform json_decode() accept:

$input = <<<eol [[[2401263,"chelsea","everton",1,"2013-05-19t15:00:00.0000000",[[4977131,39]],1$ eol;  $input2 = str_replace(",,", ",null,", $input); $json = str_replace(",]", "]", $input2);  var_dump(json_decode($json));