Reading External Text File - Load The Content Of The File Into A Variable In Script
Jul 16, 2010
I'm writing a script and I've encountered a problem.. I have a txt file with many words, each word in a different line. For example: the file words.txt contains:
word1
word2
word3
word4
word5
I need to load the content of the file into a variable in my script. I prefer that all the words will be in the same variable with line breaks, but if you'll figure out a way to put it in an array, it's ok too. I really don't know how to do it, and I tried to google but didn't understand.. By the way, I don't want to change the txt file to js file, I need it to remain txt..
I'm writing a script and I've encountered a problem.. I have a txt file with many words, each word in a different line. For example: the file words.txt contains:
word1 word2 word3 word4 word5
I need to load the content of the file into a variable in my script. I prefer that all the words will be in the same variable with line breaks, but if you'll figure out a way to put it in an array, it's ok too. I really don't know how to do it, and I tried to google but didn't understand.. By the way, I don't want to change the txt file to js file, I need it to remain txt..
var html = $.get('templates/Template.html', function(html) { }); console.log(html);
The object returned, html, have the property response, wich contain the html of page Template.html In firebug I see that the property responseText have all the html of the page, but... how can I get this value? I have try with:
Now that is fine when the text is only one line long. Suppose it's longer? What I want to do is have Javascript give the variable contentString its text from a hosted text file in a similar manner to the way Javascript can insert more Javascript using a hosted .js file.
I illustrate what I need to do using some "dummy" javascript:
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[Code]....
But as its using activex control not allowing in all browser. Have you any other way with pure js to read the file contains ? or allowing activex in all browser?
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[code]....
Is there a better way to do this because at the moment it doesn't seem to display what I want?
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