& symbol in external text file

Hi guys!

Hope you can help! I am using external text files loaded into swfs & I need to know if there is any way at all I can use the and symbol (&) and make it appear in the rest of the text?

Thanks,
Jen :thumb:

Put a “” before it.

Thanks for the reply Kenny,

I tried it and it doesnt seem to work :frowning:

use %26

I found the answer here…

http://www.naked-i.com/blog/archives/000064.php

Special Characters

Our first three characters have special meaning and must be encoded to before being passed to the Flash application. These character will not even appear in your text if you do not encode them.

Character* Special Meaning* URL Encoded Symbol

%* Used to encode special characters* %25

&* Used to separate name/value pairs* %26

+* Represents a space within a value* %2B

Thanks for helping me :slight_smile:

Guess we lose, Sen.

…good thing you posted that question, eh? You would’ve been SCREWED without our help. :wink:

Just found this thread because I had the same problem and just wanted to let others know that %26 DOES work, at least in an html rendered dynamic text field.

:love: @ Sen

sorry kenny! :stuck_out_tongue:

Guess I learned my lesson, eh? Don’t help. If you’re wrong they throw it right back at you.

You’re so clev-ar, you and your tongue emoticon – been a wonderful day and I’m not in the mood for "neener-neener"s right now, so shut it.

excuse me? :huh:

no offense man, i wasn’t poking fun at you. I was just letting others know that some things do work in case anyone was looking for a similar solution, as i was when I found the thread. Maybe your solution works for a different setup. Obviously Sen’s solution didn’t work for Axios, but it worked for me. It won’t work for someone else with a different setup but maybe yours will. Gotta try everything right? Isn’t that what this forum is for?

So don’t get your panties in a bunch all right?