Loading text into columns

hi,
does anyone know if you can load text from an external textfile into two columns, going to the second when the first is filled??

I only found this (okay, three columns, but I mean the text here is not externally loaded)

article = “The Norwegian hacker famous for blablabla.”;
words = article.split(" “);
targetColumn = 1;
for (i=0; i<words.length; i++) {
this[“col”+targetColumn].text += words*+” ";
if (this[“col”+targetColumn].maxscroll>1) {
i–;
targetColumn++;
}
}

Maybe I could load my external text into such a string, does anyone jnow how to do that?

Thank you,
Jerryj.