# Loading text with AS
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 11, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642 "2003-05-11T18:36:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@morse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/morse)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/1 "2003-05-11T18:36:53Z")
Is there any way to make line breaks when you load text into a dynamic text box, other than using html? And if not, could someone give me an example of how to do it using html?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/2 "2003-05-11T18:50:55Z")
= new line
\r = carriage return
just put them where you want them. Should work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/3 "2003-05-11T18:58:12Z")
can I do this?:
quote = new Array("’’ Tastes Like Burning ‘’\*\*
\*\* - Ralph")
and then load text into a box from the array? I mean, I know I can load the text from the array, but is that up there legal?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/4 "2003-05-11T19:00:44Z")
yeah, what exactly are you trying to do?
quote = "Tastes Like Burning
- Ralph"
just include the
right in the string. and be careful its \ not /
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/5 "2003-05-11T19:02:04Z")
Hey, I’m having the same problem. I have a text box loaded dynamically and I have it in HTML format but when I put things like \News\ in my notepad file they don’t show up when i publish. Is there anyway that I don’t make it HTML and use the /n and /r commands. Because when I put /n it actually shows up when I publish
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/6 "2003-05-11T19:02:05Z")
Oh I see. I’m making a random quotes thinger.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/7 "2003-05-11T19:03:10Z")
Oy hey it does work! Thanks a trillian gazillian Jubba!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/8 "2003-05-11T19:03:11Z")
i mean i use
and it still doesn’t work…that was a typo in the post
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/9 "2003-05-11T19:03:45Z")
i still need help ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/10 "2003-05-11T20:02:41Z")
maybe if you post the fla we can help, or post some code, it’s either the way you made your text file or your as syntax…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/11 "2003-05-12T03:38:39Z")
i got everything to work now I just can’t get things to be bold or what not. this is what i have in my firstframe
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“news.txt”);
// creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
\_root.text.scroller.html = true;
\_root.text.scroller.htmlText = this.newstext;
};
and this is what I have in my notpad file
newstext=
\\Layout - \Posted by Sanman\
\This is the news page.\
and the word layout won’t show up.?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/12 "2003-05-12T03:39:45Z")
"newstext=
\\Layout - \Posted by Sanman\
\This is the news page.\"
I would like to get rid of the HTML part and just use the
and \r
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-with-as/20642/13 "2003-05-12T09:56:17Z")
Well, then what you’re looking for is the url encode method. You can’t use escape characters in the text file. Where you would have used "
", use “%0d”, and where you would have used “\r”, use “%0a”. Other useful codes are: “%09” (tab) and “%20” (space). Anyway, the problem is that Flash doesn’t read escape characters in the text file, that’s solely an ActionScript thing (and, since it’s a C derivative, you can use the same escape chars in C: printf(“It’s the same
really!
And\\Or quite different, you see?”); ).
Anyway,
–Elios