# Percent sign won't show up

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/percent-sign-wont-show-up/253546
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 2, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/percent-sign-wont-show-up/253546 "2008-03-02T23:01:40Z")
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### Author: ![uncle\_phil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8baadc/32.png) [@uncle\_phil](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/uncle_phil)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/percent-sign-wont-show-up/253546/1 "2008-03-02T23:01:40Z")

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I’ve got a script loading in an external text file, and I set it to render text as html, but the percent signs in the text file won’t show up…if I change the percent sign to the html friendly &, then it just skips over all the text after that (the &) completely.

here’s the script (“thetext” is the variable that holds the link to the text file, and “specs” is the instance name of the dynamic text field):

\<code\>

```
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load(thetext);
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        // trace(success);
        specs.html = true;
        specs.htmlText = this.casualtext;
    }
};

```

\</code\>

thanks in advance for the help.