Download the sample files here.
1. Create two textfields. Name the first "text1", and second "text2".
2. Open notepad or any other text editing software, and enter the text below:
text1=This is text1
And:
text2=This is text2
3. Go to Flash, and in the current layer frame insert the action:
loadVariablesNum ("text.txt", 0);
4. That’s it! Press ctrl+enter to test the movie.