ActionScript 2.0 :: Open File In Flash

Make a flash swf that will build "x" circles which will not touch each other, and each one of them will have a name inside it, like "John", and in a text file I have John's friends, like: John - Lucas. so i have to make two circles, one with name john inside it and another one with name Lucas inside it, and them make a line between those, with only AS2.

i have a circle(movie clip) in library, inside it there is a dynamic text with instance name "namee", and I already manage to make the circles appears (not randomly) but they don't touching each other, but for appearing the name inside a circle, that will be happening to be from a text file, thats something i don't know how to do, i know how to open up files in C/C++ but in flash i know how to load from a text file into a dynamic text with the same variable name of the var in the text file. So the question is, how can I change a Variable, not instance, name of a Dynamic text, or how can I load stuff from a text file into a Variable, not a Text field?