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crydrk
Inspiring
Oct 26, 2011 11:11 PM UTC
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Read a .txt file

I'm trying to find out how to read a .txt file and simply assign its contents to a variable. Is this possible?

 

[Edit] Right after posting I found this page which seems like it might be in the direction I want to go but I haven't checked it out completely yet: Read Tab Delimited Text File

Just posting the link for future searchers or if anyone will tell me 'Hey! That's not what you're looking for!'

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crydrkCorrect answer
Inspiring
Oct 27, 2011 2:16 AM UTC

For anyone interested, the simplified answer for me was:

var fileToParse = File ('path');

fileToParse.open('r');

var dataToGet = fileToParse.readln();

fileToParse.close();

I only needed the one line, so thats why my example above is so simple.

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crydrkAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
Oct 27, 2011 2:16 AM UTC

For anyone interested, the simplified answer for me was:

var fileToParse = File ('path');

fileToParse.open('r');

var dataToGet = fileToParse.readln();

fileToParse.close();

I only needed the one line, so thats why my example above is so simple.

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defaultkrt0iuh8hlot
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Jul 22, 2022 6:41 PM UTC

What should you do if you need more than one line?

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