importing special characters from text file

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My project requires me to import a text file into a dynamic text field by using the loadVariables() function. My problem is that the text file contains a ampersign "&" . It seems that the ampersign stops the rest of the text from being imported into my flash movie. Is there a special character or escape character that I can use to allow me to import the ampersign?

I've tried using the & and setting my dynamic text field to HTML. No luck. Oh.. I'm using flash MX :(

Any ideas?

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parker7211986Correct answer

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I found a link that helps:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.tn_14143&extid=tn_14143&dialogID=33731379&iterationID=1&sessionID=4830136b611e54860724&stateID=0+0+33735653&mode=simple

Example: & is equivlant to %26

Works for me!
Thanks for your suggestions.

kglad

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you're welcome (and that's url-encoding).

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foozebox

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Hey I've run into this problem and found the solution lies with JavaScript which can read the text just fine and then parse it back to Flash as escape characters:

//JavaScript code:
var origText = 'blah blah & then i did this & then blah blah";

var newText = String(escape(origText).replace(new RegExp('\\+', 'g'), '%2b'));
FlashWin.sendText(newText); // << this is a reference to a flash window with ExternalInterface enabled

// end

However, I was using HttpRequest in JS to get my original data. So this method is dependent on something other than Flash to retrieve the original text (with ampersands).

I really hope they fix this bug in the future, it can drive you nuts....

-Dan

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