loading arrays from external files

[flashMine]

Hey,

Can anyone explain how to inport arrays into Flash from external text files easily or point me in the direction of the right tutorial?

I would really apreciate this one - it's for my calendar in:
http://emma.dar.cam.ac.uk/~cdj21/sm...ex.php?swf=arujj

I want dots to represent events on the timeline and have information pop-up when that dot is clicked on - all info loaded via arrays from an external text file.

Cheers,
Chris

PS- I posted this in actionscript help - but maybe that was misplaced (so I'm reposting here, hope that's ok)

[catbert303]

You can write the text file using a separator character between the values in the array, e.g.

&arr=the|values|to|go|in|the|array&

then when you load this you can use split to create an array from the string,

var theArray = [];
var lv = new LoadVars();
lv.onLoad = function(ok) {
    if (ok) {
        theArray = this.arr.split("|");
    }
};
lv.load("filename.txt");