# Loading External Text Files into Flash MX
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 25, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694 "2003-07-25T11:14:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@andyBateman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andyBateman)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694/1 "2003-07-25T11:14:02Z")
Hi Guy’s and Gall’s
I have a couple problems, i imagine probably easily fixed, but over my head 🙂
Number 1…
My flash movie loads an external text file on loading, then display’s it in another scene in a scrolling box.
The problem is all the line breaks, it seems to add 2 for every 1, is that to do with the text file? or have i missed something in flash? can i remove them with action script?
Number 2…
The Flash movie doesn’t reload the text file every time you oven the page, it seems to open a ‘cached’ version, can i do anything about this?
[www.bexinoz.com](http://www.bexinoz.com)
Thanks in anticipation of any help you guys can give me!
Andy
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694/2 "2003-07-25T11:29:44Z")
for the second problem, this should help you
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=27234&highlight=cache+text](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=27234&highlight=cache+text)
for the carriage return, i know there’s a fix, and has been discussed before here on the forums, but i can’t seem to find the thread ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694/3 "2003-07-25T11:29:47Z")
1. Take a look at this thread, I posted a sample fla that uses a undocumented feature called condenseWhite. It will remove the extra line spaces.
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10394&highlight=condensewhite](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10394&highlight=condensewhite)
1. Read this, it will show you how to prevent caching.
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/prevent\_caching.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/prevent_caching.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694/4 "2003-07-25T11:33:18Z")
here
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10394](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10394)
[edit]
oops, that’s the link i was looking for 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-files-into-flash-mx/26694/5 "2003-07-25T13:25:41Z")
You could also use this little function to remove them… 😉
[AS]String.prototype.removeCR = function() {
var t = [], s = escape(this), r = “”, i;
t = s.split("%0D");
for (i=0; i\