export keys and values of dictionary as variable name and value

Question

How could I create variables from keys and values of a dictionary? Is the following extract (like PHP) possible?

julia> d = Dict(
    "key1"    =>111,
    "key2"    =>222,
    "key3"    =>333
);
julia> extract(d)
julia> key1, key2, key3
(111,222,333)

Answer 1

k = collect(keys(d)) 

v = collect(values(d)) 

Both keys and values return iterators. collect then produces an array.

But note that you often do not need to do this and can just iterate through the dictionary using

for (k, v) in d