# Need to put in & in external text-file

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-to-put-in-in-external-text-file/171018
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 1, 2005, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-to-put-in-in-external-text-file/171018 "2005-12-01T09:38:05Z")
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### Author: ![kathari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kathari](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kathari)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-to-put-in-in-external-text-file/171018/1 "2005-12-01T09:38:05Z")

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Can someone help me with this? I have made a gallery with externally loaded images and text. The text comes from a .txt file. The textfiled is rendered in html.  
The text-file loooks something like this:  
textNo1=\<html\>This is the text where I need to put an &\</html\>&  
Now my lient needs to put an &-sign. I have tried to use the & and also the excape code \u0026 but it doesn’t work, at least not the way I am doing it. Does anyone know how to do this? Is it possible? ☹