# How To Display Externally Uploaded Text?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-display-externally-uploaded-text/299178>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 31, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-display-externally-uploaded-text/299178 "2009-10-31T03:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![hamburglar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hamburglar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hamburglar)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-display-externally-uploaded-text/299178/1 "2009-10-31T03:30:49Z")

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Hey everybody!

It’s been a while since I’ve been here at Kirupa. Last time I came here for tutorials, Flash MX was brand spanking new … Needless to say, it’s good to be back.

Now, down to the question … I’ve made flash documents that load external text in the past. However, these documents were only built for loading specific text files that I would have to carefully name and declare in flash.

After seeing sites like docstoc, where users can upload text into automatically generated flash documents, my curiosity kicked in. Does anyone know, generally speaking, how this is accomplished in flash?

Sorry ahead of time if this question is a bit too broad in scope … but any help would definitely be appreciated! 😃