# Dynamic Text help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-help/112618>\
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**Created:** [June 9, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-help/112618 "2004-06-09T18:48:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![cedusett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cedusett](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cedusett)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-help/112618/1 "2004-06-09T18:48:07Z")

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I have a text field that I’m populating with data from a text file when the movie clip loads. Here is the code I’m using, which I made after reviewing some of the online tutorials on this board (thanks!).

txtLoad = new LoadVars ();  
txtLoad.load(“shows.txt”)  
txtLoad.onLoad = function (){  
output.htmlText=txtLoad.shows;  
}

What this does is simply look at shows.txt, and load the shows variable into the text field. This works great, but it seems to be choking on the & character. Here is a snippet of my shows.txt file:

shows=  
\<FONT face=“verdana”\>The Knitting Factory\</FONT\>  
\<FONT face=“verdana”\>{Old Office}\</FONT\>  
\<FONT face=“verdana”\>74 Leonard Street\</FONT\>

This works fine, but if I try to add certain html elements like &nbsp; or more importantly, a link that contains a ‘&’ in the querystring, it just stops loading the text, and cuts off wherever it finds the ‘&’. Can anyone figure a way around this? I need to be able to read this from an external file, and I can’t find a way to do it AND include & characters.