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Importing text with Lingo

Lingo can import text in several ways.

| To import text from a URL, use the `getNetText()` function. See `getNetText()`.
| To import text from an external file from a URL or the local computer, select or create a text cast member and set its `fileName` property to the name of the external file that contains the text. See `fileName (cast member property)`.
| To import text from a file on disk, use the `getPref()` function. If no `setPref` command has already written such a file, the `getPref()` function returns `VOID`. See `getPref()`.