# Loading variable data from an external text doc

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variable-data-from-an-external-text-doc/300131>\
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**Created:** [November 16, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variable-data-from-an-external-text-doc/300131 "2009-11-16T17:15:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![m00nb00ts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@m00nb00ts](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m00nb00ts)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variable-data-from-an-external-text-doc/300131/1 "2009-11-16T17:15:16Z")

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Can anyone spot the error here that is giving me a TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter text must be non-null.

The text field captions are in a file named captions.txt in the same root folder.

Still learning!  
thanks

```auto
var myURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var myURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("captions_tuesday.txt");
myURLLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES
myURLLoader.load(myURLRequest);

myURLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, dataOK);

function dataOK(myevent:Event):void
    {
    textfield1.text=myURLLoader.data.caption1;
    textfield2.text=myURLLoader.data.caption2;
    textfield3.text=myURLLoader.data.caption3;
    }
    

```