PHP N00b help!

I am building a simple price calculator for a client's client... I had found a way to figure everything else out and get it all working, except for one part.

Let me explain the idea of the project first: The user is suppose to enter a password, and depending on the password that is entered, read a certain text file with prices. I used the file() command, that brings in every line as a new part of the array, I then used array_unshift to make the first line be 1 instead of zero. There is an admin area, where they can change the prices in the text file... but I would really like line numbers. I want the actual file to look like this:
1)1234
2)2345

BUT when its called to be echoed into the table, have it strip out the "number)" part... I tried to do a loop that striped out the first part using str_replace, but that only worked for 1-10... I have to up to 98. Can anyone help me find a way to do this? This is my first time writing in PHP (or anything) and I hate asking for help, but I have been looking everywhere for a solution, and I can't get one to work! Any help would be appreciated.

 

There are several different ways to do this..
I would use ereg if it were me.. But since this is a newb lesson:

assume $strParen is "1)1234" or "98)123123" or anything)numbers

$newStr = substr($strParen, 1+strpos($strParen, ")"));

Code (markup):

-Jason

 

I don't think that works... this is an array. $thefile is what its called, and goes like this: 1 => 1234
2 => 2345
ECT.
When I print_r the array... it comes back with the rray...
Any more help... sorry for being so dumb...

 

I meant, after I did what you said, that's what it printed... It would even work to trim the first 4 characters of, if I set them all to 001)... but again, how to I get it to work in an array?

 

I need to see the print_r output to tell you for sure.. But if you had an array that was

$i[1] = "1)1238";
$i[2] = "2)120837";
$i[3] = "3)0909";
...
$i[9981] = "9981)123897"

PHP:

and you wanted to print out:
1238
120837
0909
...
123897

I would use:

foreach ($i as $strParen) {
$newStr = substr($strParen, 1+strpos($strParen, ")"));
print("$newStr<br>");
}

PHP:

-Jason

 

Cool, I'll try it!