# Loading text file
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 23, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486 "2003-12-23T18:58:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@rewko](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rewko)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/1 "2003-12-23T18:58:40Z")
I want to load text into text area from external .txt file.
I know one way that reqires to begin external file with the name of a variable.
but i dont want to do this.
Is there any other way?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/2 "2003-12-23T19:57:20Z")
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple\_dynamictext.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/3 "2003-12-23T19:58:51Z")
Why do you want to use another way ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/4 "2003-12-23T20:09:06Z")
dang veots, i have this errie feeling that you’re following me :pa:
😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/5 "2003-12-24T11:00:23Z")
Voetsjoeba, I want to use the external file alternative like .html document and text document for flash. In the .html document is not nice that at the begining is showed (in MSIE) variable=.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/6 "2003-12-24T11:02:26Z")
norie, the .txt file begins with myNews=, that i dont want.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/7 "2003-12-24T11:27:44Z")
> \*Originally posted by norie \*
> \*\*dang veots, i have this errie feeling that you’re following me :pa: \*\*
:whistle:
Haha, no, I’m not following you, I’m just helping around 🙂
> Voetsjoeba, I want to use the external file alternative like .html document and text document for flash. In the .html document is not nice that at the begining is showed (in MSIE) variable=.
I … didn’t quite understand.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/8 "2003-12-24T13:52:53Z")
doest matter what i want it for. Is there any ay to load whole .txt file that doesnt begin with ‘variable=’ ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/9 "2003-12-24T19:43:59Z")
yea, XML
what do you have against ‘variable=’?
Voets-
_cough_stalker_cough_ :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/10 "2003-12-24T22:16:08Z")
> \*Originally posted by norie \*
> _coughstalkercough_ :beam: \*\*
_cough_paranoid_cough_ :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-file/38486/11 "2003-12-25T18:55:30Z")
i want to use that external file also as html page and variable= at the biggining is visible in internet browser. How can I do it using XML?