semi-dirty PHP trick?

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How ugly is this approach to making a copy of an array that moves only values, not references?

$copy_of_array = unserialize(serialize($multidimensional_array));

I feel a little dirty... assuming I'm not too worried about efficiency, should I?

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well it is PHP. The language wihtout design.

Even Perl sound sane compared to PHP.

(sorry I don't have a real answer)