# The & sign

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign/41917>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 3, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign/41917 "2004-02-03T13:37:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mako](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@mako](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mako)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign/41917/1 "2004-02-03T13:37:48Z")

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hey,

I have a asp page that I am loading into flash. One or 2 of the urls  
have the "& " in them.

flash sees it as as variable… and does load the urls’s… is there a way around this…

mako 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign/41917/2 "2004-02-04T08:34:12Z")

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another way to do it is use %26 in place of the “&” sign in the url. this also seems to work.

thanx for the help  
mako 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-sign/41917/3 "2004-02-04T12:17:42Z")

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Yep, that’s a URLencoded ‘&’ 🙂