# File paths in ActionScript

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-paths-in-actionscript/219617
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 18, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-paths-in-actionscript/219617 "2007-03-18T18:59:14Z")
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#### Post date: [March 18, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-paths-in-actionscript/219617/1 "2007-03-18T18:59:14Z")

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Hi All

I wonder if anyone can tell me anything about this:

file:///e|sites/mysite/… etc

This is the format I get if I output the value of \_root.\_url (or any object’s URL, for that matter).

For some reason, I just **could not** concatenate this to a file in normal string format, and get it to work. I know that \_url ends with a filename, so I stripped that out, concatenated a php file’s filename onto the end (not forgetting the necessary slash between the two), but NO GO.

When I typed in a plain old absolute path, I had no problems. This leads me to believe it’s something in this kind of path format (maybe the pipe | symbol?)

Would appreciate if anyone could share their knowledge on this. I’m quite new to AS.