# How do I put a percentage sign in a text string loading from database?

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**Created:** [February 6, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977 "2003-02-06T22:55:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![3dron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/2acd7d/32.png) [@3dron](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3dron)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/1 "2003-02-06T22:55:46Z")

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I have everything working! I can change my database text, and call it from my flash through php. But it doesn’t seem to translate over the ‘%’ sign.

I know this is probably not database specfic.

“Text=Test text&Comment=Take 10% off all products”

The variable Comment only comes out as:

Take 10 of all products.

Do I use an escape character?

Thanks for any help

Ron

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/2 "2003-02-07T03:59:33Z")

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try %… not sure if it’ll work though…

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/3 "2003-02-07T04:04:36Z")

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&Comment=Take 10%25 off all products

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/4 "2003-02-07T07:35:17Z")

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Thanks, worked perfectly. Where is the documentation for this?

What part is making it work the ‘25’, or is ‘%25’ an escape character for ‘%’?

Thanks

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/5 "2003-02-07T10:43:54Z")

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Just a guess here, I see no “” anywhere, so Im guessing it only uses key characters when parsing strings within a “”

again, just an assumption from other programming languages.

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/6 "2003-02-07T14:03:40Z")

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Everything should be in the AS Dictionary 🙂

And the whole thing makes it work. I believe it’s % and then the ASCII code.

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/7 "2003-02-07T18:35:41Z")

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> \*Originally posted by 3dron \*  
> **What part is making it work the ‘25’, or is ‘%25’ an escape character for ‘%’?**

‘%25’ = %

> \*Originally posted by 3dron \*  
> **Where is the documentation for this?**

Simply, do the following:

string = “%”  
trace(escape(string));

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**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-put-a-percentage-sign-in-a-text-string-loading-from-database/12977/8 "2003-02-08T15:48:34Z")

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Just to split hair a bit more, don’t call your variable string, it’s confusing, and it might be a reserved word 🙂