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read()

Syntax

    file("WhichTextFile").read( {bytesToRead} )

Description

Multiuser Server server-side function; reads a string from the specified text file. If no number of bytes is specified, all the bytes in the file are read. If a number of bytes is specified, only that number of bytes is read from the beginning of the file.

Example

This server-side statement reads 255 bytes from the text file Longspeech.txt and assigns the string to the variable `tempText`:

    tempText = file("HardDrive:TextFiles:Longspeech.txt").read(255)