# Working with text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-text/161810>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 7, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-text/161810 "2005-09-07T11:12:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-text/161810/1 "2005-09-07T11:12:23Z")

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Is there a way in actionscript to search through a block of text and extract certain sentences for example or pieces of information that match a certain criteria.

What im thinking of doing is loading in some data from an XML file and searching through to see if it contains a link and/or an URL

any ideas?