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    Using LoadVariables to load text containing &

    Hiya all,

    im trying to load text into a little movie i've made - it all looks fine except it only loads up to where the txt file has a '&' in it... of course...

    Originally i did a find & replace and replaced all '&' with 'and', but then i realised some hyperlinks in the text had to have &'s in them...

    How can i get past this restriction?

    Pllllllzzzzzz tell me theres a way lol

    Thanks very much for your time
    -Loss
    Death before inconvenience!

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    i had issues w/ this in coldfusion when i was creating drill downs. There were some fields that had an & in them so it was breaking up my URL variables.. so what i did was thought of a replacement.

    when ever there was a & is the field var I replaced it with something sfae like :: and when the this was passed it was then decoded on the accepting script to replace my special :: char back into an & .

    hope that helps

    t0ad

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    Ahh right... yeh unfortunatly that doesn't help me in this case cos im not running any scripts or anything and the offending '&'s are in actual url addresses

    Thanks for that anyway
    -Loss
    Death before inconvenience!

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    Whoo yeh!

    Got it



    Using hex values for the & symbol worked, heres the TechNote i found that solved my problem.
    http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...l_encoding.htm

    I hope this helps any others that come across this prob
    -Loss
    Death before inconvenience!

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