FLASH: flash and loading variables from a text file

[mick]

greetings.


here's my code:


Load Variables ("ticker.txt", 0)

Set Variable: "/title:headline" = head

Begin Tell Target ("/title")

      Go to and Play (2)

End Tell Target


ticker.txt contains: head=Giant Spider Monkeys Take Manhattan by

Storm!!!!


and if i were to put a Text Field in the base level associated with

variable "head" - it would display in the text box without fail.  also,

if i Load Variable ("ticker.txt","/title") the Text Field associated

with variable "head" invariably does as it should.


however, and here's where i'm hoping someone will be able to offer me

assistance.  i can not load "head" from ticker.txt and then use it as a

variable to do any of the fun things we like to do with variables.  in

the example above i'm trying to declare "/title:headline" to be the same

as "head" from ticker.txt, but alas! it stubbornly refuses.


other permutations of the same that fail to work


Set Variable: "/title:headline" = head

Set Variable: "/title:headline" = "head"

Set Variable: "/title:headline" = eval(head)


Trace(head)

Trace(eval(head))


this problem has had the better part of my brain for 3 solid hours now -

it's 3:08 am and i'm hoping that i've overlooked something so small that

it will make me want to slit my wrists when it's pointed out to me.


i'll be here 'til dawn likely, so if anyone out there is reading this

and can offer any advice at all, it would be greatly appreciated.


thank you.


--

mick szucs

onramp network services inc.

pgp id - 0x27FCD309




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