# Bracket characters from external text files

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bracket-characters-from-external-text-files/107847
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**Created:** [April 19, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bracket-characters-from-external-text-files/107847 "2004-04-19T18:22:48Z")
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### Author: ![AlexSem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@AlexSem](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AlexSem)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bracket-characters-from-external-text-files/107847/1 "2004-04-19T18:22:48Z")

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Greetings 🙂

I am just curious how one would get “\<” and “\>” to work if you use external say… .txt file for a textfield…

## So say I put in my textfile

textfield= The cookies were great —\> and so was the milk\<br\>\<br\>Yes I love cookies.

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The \<br\> is html, but the —\> is not, yet it won’t show…

Same goes for other characters, such as “&”, ", ’

Any ideas what to dew? 🙂