# Loading .txt file variable

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**Created:** [May 11, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-txt-file-variable/188863 "2006-05-11T13:20:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ric373](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Ric373](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ric373)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-txt-file-variable/188863/1 "2006-05-11T13:20:20Z")

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Hello,

I’m loading variables from a .txt file. I have a numeric value, but flash seems to treat it like text (I cannot use the number for a calculation) How can I fix this?

txt file:  
&itemNum=10

flash file:  
loadVariablesNum(“files.txt”, 0);  
pageNum=itemNum/5  
trace(pageNum)

It says it’s NaN, but when i trace itemNum, it will trace “10”