# Text formatting problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 25, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904 "2006-04-25T10:33:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Club](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Club)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904/1 "2006-04-25T10:33:35Z")
I have a problem when loading an external .txt file. Flash turns this:
"CV Verificatie, keurmerk voor uw sollicitatie
Het Curriculum Vitae Keurmerk, maakt uw sollicitatie ijzersterk."
into this:
“CV%20Verificatie%2C%20keurmerk%20voor%20uw%20sollicitatie%0A%0A
Het%20Curriculum%20Vitae%20Keurmerk%2C%20maakt%20uw%20sollicitatie%20ijzersterk”
The script:
var loadText:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
loadText.load(“text/01\_overons\_01.txt”);
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
txt\_load.text = loadText;
} else {
txt\_load.text = “error”;
}
}
Please help!
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### Author:  [@Mirandir](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mirandir)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904/2 "2006-04-25T10:55:55Z")
Hmm it seems like it have’nt removed all url-encodings as it should. try to run it through unescape() first.
BTW do you have a “loadText” variable on the same timeline? as there is no “this” before it in the onLoad event it could be taking such a variable’s content instead.
```auto
var loadText:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("text/01_overons_01.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
txt_load.text = **unescape(this.loadText);**
} else {
txt_load.text = "error";
}
}
```
/Mirandir
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### Author:  [@Club](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Club)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904/3 "2006-04-25T11:12:11Z")
It doens’t seem to work, but thanks for helping, now I know of this unescape() command. This is the only loadText variable on the timeline, I have all the text in the movieclip but I want to get it all external, so this is just the first frame I’m trying. Besides, the variable LoadText with a capital L (I think).
Don’t know what you mean with the “this” bit.
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### Author:  [@Club](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Club)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904/4 "2006-04-25T11:33:00Z")
It works now, I changed the period to a comma.
```auto
var loadText:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("text/01_overons_01.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
txt_load.text = **unescape(this,loadText);**
} else {
txt_load.text = "error";
}
}
```
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Mirandir](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mirandir)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-formatting-problem/186904/5 "2006-04-25T12:29:57Z")
Aaah now I see. you’re assigning the actual LoadVars object to the textfield. Well that explains everything. My reference to this was assuming that loadText was a variable loaded with the LoadVars object. So in that code you can actually remove the loadText reference completetly and go with just “this”.
/Mirandir