If you are receiving text from a server-side script such as PHP, ASP etc which has new line formatting using \n and these are being displayed
e.g,

Hello,\nThis is on a line under hello.

is being displayed but should actually be displayed as:

Hello,
This is on a line under hello.

It appears that Flash is actually escaping the \n character with another slash - as \\n

There are two fixes for this, one in flash and the other from the server-side.

• Flash way:
  

  function addNewLines(text:String) {
  	return text.split("\\n").join("\n");
  }
  
  // and call the function like so:
  var wrongText = ‘Hello,\nThis is on a line under hello.’;
  var output = addNewLines(wrongText);
  

• Server-side way
  Globally replace all \n characters with

  


  (ampisand hash 10 semi-colon) -
  It will then correctly display new lines when displayed in flash.