# Text assistance plz! :D

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**Created:** [August 17, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-assistance-plz-d/197576 "2006-08-17T14:58:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Taintedsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Taintedsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Taintedsoul)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-assistance-plz-d/197576/1 "2006-08-17T14:58:44Z")

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Hello everyone 🙂

I found this tut on find and select  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/find\_select\_text.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/find_select_text.htm)

this is almost what i need but i need to expand it to search a text file for a line of text  
and display it in the box with text

if anyone could please tell me how to do this i would greatly appreciate it.