# Externally loading text aint working!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/externally-loading-text-aint-working/203019>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 6, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/externally-loading-text-aint-working/203019 "2006-10-06T16:56:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Butters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Butters](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Butters)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/externally-loading-text-aint-working/203019/1 "2006-10-06T16:56:33Z")

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Trying to load some text from an external .txt file.

Got my dynamic text field ready with the var of ‘content’ (no quotes).

In the .txt file this is what I typed:

```auto

content=This is a test title

```

AS on the main timeline is:

```auto

loadVariablesNum("mytext.txt", 0);

```

It links to the file, everything is fine but it’s not working! Why the hell not, iv checked everything but it’s just not displaying the text in the text field…help!