### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/1 "2002-05-17T17:59:18Z")
Hello again dear Flash mastas programmas,
Here’s the situation:
I load a variable from a txt file.
The dynamic text box has html turned ON.
All characters are embeded.
Here’s the problem:
In the txt file I have a text that contains an html link:
myVariable=Hello! This is my text! Click \ but this seems odd to me… Why isn’t this working?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/2 "2002-05-18T02:23:33Z")
ahh… you’ve run into the deadly “escape” problem. Flash does recognize html links, but if you’re taking things in from a txt file you need to escape some of the characters that you are using. I’ll see if I can find out how to do that for you. It’s not too tough… it just requires you to remember a couple things when constructing the text files.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2002, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/3 "2002-05-18T09:08:57Z")
OK, I’ll just wait here until you find that out…
Say, aren’t you happen to talking about the html/httpencoders? like when instead of a space it’ll say something like %20 and like for other character it’ll be something like %4F or whatever?
Do you mean that I need to use such code to write the \<\> ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/4 "2002-05-18T10:37:09Z")
exactly that sir. You so smart.
I’m not sure where a list of those is, but they should be the same for Flash so if you know em, use em.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/5 "2002-05-18T14:26:50Z")
Yeah, I got a web-based encoder.
But it doesn’t work. Still the same problem.
I switched the \< and \> by %3C and %3E, which are the corresponding codes but it still doesn’t work…
What am I missing here? Am I suppose to use this code on the entire variable???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/6 "2002-05-19T16:54:56Z")
hmm… I’ll have to play around a little before I can figure that out. I’ll be working on such things tonight sometime… maybe I’ll have an answer by monday
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/7 "2002-05-19T19:36:52Z")
Just in case : Are you sure the textbox is long enough ? Did you put the multiline on ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-problem-regarding-loadvariable-html-links/2642/8 "2002-05-20T03:17:52Z")
Yes, I tested it with other text (that doesn’t contain links) and everything works fine.
I know that the \