# Escape Characters
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 15, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548 "2002-09-15T03:59:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Gaztank](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gaztank)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548/1 "2002-09-15T03:59:26Z")
Does anyone have a list of know of one for some of the escape characters used for & and + and others so that the text fields recognize them when loading them from .txt files?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548/2 "2002-09-15T08:10:02Z")
If you’re referring to URL encoding character in external text files, try this utility:
[http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/](http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/)
You can type your text and any characters such as & and % will be encoded.
It’s extremely useful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548/3 "2002-09-15T15:43:32Z")
hmm … i tested out that software but couldn’t get the results i wanted. is there something i must do with the .txt file?
i’m actually only looking for the escape characters for the & and the + sign … so if anyone knows what they are, that would be quick help. a list of other characters would be helpful in the future too.
thanx.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548/4 "2002-09-15T17:20:16Z")
[http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec\_13.html](http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_13.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/escape-characters/5548/5 "2002-09-15T23:37:10Z")
Sorry Flex for being a nuisance, but i’ve tried those escape characters and they don’t work. i think it’s because they start off with an ‘&’ … and Flash thinks the & is the beginning of a new variable name that holds values.
what happens is that wherever i put in the escape character, nothing after it will load into the text boxes.