# Set character limit for loaded text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/set-character-limit-for-loaded-text/143874>\
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**Created:** [April 9, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/set-character-limit-for-loaded-text/143874 "2005-04-09T14:01:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Halil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ea924/32.png) [@Halil](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Halil)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/set-character-limit-for-loaded-text/143874/1 "2005-04-09T14:01:21Z")

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Hi all,

Question regarding dynamically loaded text in Flash.

I have news headlines with summaries that are loaded from external text files,  
but the thing is that I only want to display 250 characters of the article in the summary text field, and where it truncates (cuts off) I want to add “…”

I’m up the wall

any ideas?