ActionScript 2.0 :: Make A Scoreboard Of Players?

I'm trying to make a scoreboard of players.It works fine for strings (like the username) listing like:

User1
User2
User3
etc

using in PHP to seperate them. (Using Flash,PHP,MySQL Integration)This is how I get them from the db in PHP:

PHP Code:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $rankPos .= $nrow . "
"; //# Position $rankUser .= $row['user'] . "
"; //Username obviously $rankN .= $row[$rankBy] . "

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The problem with this is, when flash receives rankings such as time, they are seperated by newlines () which makes them strings instead of integers as they rightly should be.

I'm using a time to string function to convert the time as integer (getTimer()) to a format HH:MM:SS It's fine ranking the times in the getTimer format but it all becomes a mess when trying to display the string format instead. (Considering times for all players are linked in the same string passed by PHP as time

time
time
time (000000

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The reason they are split with newlines is because the rankings are displayed in a single dynamic text.I tried converting each time in flash using the int function, but what would you do for newlines? The time rankings just comes out as '0' because of the newlines.I've also tried using this following function to remove the newlines and then possibly put each time into an array.

Actionscript Code:
function time(input){ timestr = ""; for(i=0; i<input.length; i++){  if(input.charAt(i) != " "){ timestr += input.charAt(i);} }  return timestr;}

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What would I check for in order to get each time into an array?Though I'd much prefer using a much more efficient and easy method for display high scores.