# Reading External Files without Counter

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-external-files-without-counter/281582
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 10, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-external-files-without-counter/281582 "2009-02-10T22:59:42Z")
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### Author: ![Tsucasa13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tsucasa13](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tsucasa13)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-external-files-without-counter/281582/1 "2009-02-10T22:59:42Z")

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Okay, so I was just wondering if there is a way to read the names of files from a directory in Actionscript 3 without the use of a counter (which would require the files to be numbered) and without another script such as XML or PHP. I’ve searched in the old posts and elsewhere, but I haven’t found anything. I’ve seen the FLfile API, but A. I’m not sure how to access it and B. I think it only does the whole URI where I would like a relative address. Any help, knowledge, or pages with clues to the answer would be amazing.