i was wondering if anyone had equivalent functions to PHP's
Unserialize/serialize functions?

i'm trying to convert some PHP code to VBScript .... one portion of
the code includes 2-dimensional arrays, which VBScript's functions of
Split and Join are not handling very well. from what i can tell, the
PHP code takes a 2-dimensional array and "serializes" it to put in a
table. one record from this table looks like so:

a:3:{s:7:"Content";a:1:{s:2:"Id";i:151;}s:6:"Static";a:4:{s:6:"Exists";i:1;s:2:"Id";i:150;s:3:"Pos";s:3:"top";s:4:"Size";s:2:"92";}s:10:"Navigation";a:1:{s:6:"Exists";i:0;}}

somehow i am to "unserialize" this string and put it into a 2
dimensional array. i'm having a time interpreting the string. thats
why i'm hoping someone has functions already built that is equivalent
to these PHP functions

any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks!