How to convert a string that contains an associative array to an associative array type?

I have a string that contains associative array like that

$string = "['key1'=>'value1','key2'=>'value2','key3'=>'value3']";

and I want to convert it to an associative array so i can loop through it.

is there any way to do it ?

Thanks in advance .

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