checking for "-" in a string

[Anon]

Hey,

I'm writing values from a form to a text file and then parsing those into an HTML table. No problem there everythingis working fine. This is financial data and I want to color the text red in the HTML if the value is preceeded by a minus sign "-"

I'm pretty new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is the code I'm using to populate each field based on line breaks in the text file:

<td>
<?php
$lines=file('text.txt');
for($i=0;$i<1;$i++){
echo "".$lines[0];
}
?>
</td>

How can I determine if the value of $lines[0] starts with a - and color it red?

Any help on this would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

k

[Anon]

Try:

if (strpos($lines[0], '-') === 0) {
// output red
} else {
// output normal
}

Diego

[Anon]

You're the man! That worked perfectly!

Thanks a million, saved my life...

Cheers,

kevin