# The "&" sign is ruining my life!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign-is-ruining-my-life/194616>\
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**Created:** [July 25, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign-is-ruining-my-life/194616 "2006-07-25T00:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![bed718](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bed718](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bed718)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign-is-ruining-my-life/194616/1 "2006-07-25T00:57:08Z")

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Well, its not that bad…

I have writen PHP to deal extract data from MySQL and put into flash. The problem is that I need to have the “&” sign in the body of text that I want to extract. But when it is converted to a form that flash can read (Variables with ‘&’ around them) flash is getting tripped up and cutting off the text to soon!

Is there a way to change modify (maybe inserting ascii) the ‘&’ so that flash dosent freak out??