# Column in a text file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676>\
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**Created:** [March 29, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676 "2006-03-29T04:02:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![3dsound](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/3dsound/32/78_2.png) [@3dsound](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3dsound)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676/1 "2006-03-29T04:02:55Z")

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I am using external text files to load in flash. Some of them require columns (no border). ex: column1 column 2 column3. But it doesn’t work just using the spacebar.

Thing is I don’t know how to use the html script on the text file to make it right.

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676/2 "2006-03-29T04:08:29Z")

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Is each column going to wrap within itself as it normally would with columns?

If so, simply provide one column, then some delimiter such as “-----------” or two consecutive new line characters, and have Flash parse that and put it into the next text-field column.

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**Author:** ![3dsound](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/3dsound/32/78_2.png) [@3dsound](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3dsound)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676/3 "2006-03-29T06:39:21Z")

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Yes it does. i am not sure I understood the explanation though ☹ sorry.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676/4 "2006-03-29T20:30:22Z")

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Have your content like this…

> This is in the first column  
> Lipsum… first column  
> first column, more content  
> la… la… la…

* * *

## second column more content and one last line

third column  
one more line  
and a last one

And you’ll explode it by that line, “-------------”, and then put the var[0] into first column… var[1] in the second, and so on…

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**Author:** ![3dsound](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/3dsound/32/78_2.png) [@3dsound](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3dsound)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/column-in-a-text-file/183676/5 "2006-04-01T02:15:29Z")

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Oh I see! thanks

> [@nokrev](#):
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> Have your content like this…
> 
> And you’ll explode it by that line, “-------------”, and then put the var[0] into first column… var[1] in the second, and so on…