The File I/O API > The file I/O API > DWfile.read() |
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Availability
Dreamweaver 2.0
Description
Reads the contents of the specified file into a string.
Arguments
fileURL
The argument is the file you want to read, expressed as a file:// URL.
Returns
A string containing the contents of the file, or null
if the read fails.
Example
The following code reads the file mydata.txt and, if successful, displays an alert box with the contents of the file.
var fileURL = "file:///c|/temp/mydata.txt"; var str = DWfile.read( fileURL); if (str){ alert( fileURL + " contains: " + str); }
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