# Keyword search
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyword-search/38915
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 31, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyword-search/38915 "2003-12-31T19:01:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Edouard\_Dorval](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Edouard_Dorval)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyword-search/38915/1 "2003-12-31T19:01:24Z")
Hi,
Lately, I learned on this site that I could make flash (MX and 2004) load a text an external file and display it in a textbox.
I would like to know if there is a way, anyway, to make a “keyword search” from those external files in flash.
Thanks,
Any help will be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyword-search/38915/2 "2003-12-31T19:03:32Z")
You just want to search if some word exist on a block of text?
Or something more advanced?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyword-search/38915/3 "2004-01-01T11:31:47Z")
Hum? Lets see…
I just want it to seach it a word exits in the external texts, if yes, to load the text in wich the word is in a variable…
If no, to display a message in the variable telling that there is no result.
esle (for example if the word as been found more than one time)
I don’t know:sigh: You decide .
Thanks
Oh, by the way I’ve figured that I can’t find a simple scrollbar standing alone in Mx2004, it is always with a text box, a pane or something but never alone.
Is that correct or should I reinstall Mx2004?
Thanks again.