# Grabbing HTML param's and using them in Flash

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-html-params-and-using-them-in-flash/256894
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-html-params-and-using-them-in-flash/256894 "2008-04-08T15:26:40Z")
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### Author: ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-html-params-and-using-them-in-flash/256894/1 "2008-04-08T15:26:40Z")

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Greetings friends,

i’ll be starting work on a little app here at work, and the whole idea behind it is to fill in a specific object parameter in the HTML, and pull that information out from within Flash so that i can output certain things…

for example, we’ll be using perl to output a value in !!user!!

\<param name=“user” value="!!user!!" /\>

My question is, is there anyway to parse this information from within Flash?