This loads the contents of a text file into a string variable.
See counterpart Code Snippet Save String To File.
Requires: None
Code
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-- Open File and return Handle -- function OpenFile(strFileName,strMode) local fileHandle, strError = io.open(strFileName,strMode) if not fileHandle then error("\n Unable to open file in \""..strMode.."\" mode. \n "..strFileName.." \n "..tostring(strError).." \n") end return fileHandle end -- function OpenFile -- Load string from file -- function StrLoadFromFile(strFileName) local fileHandle = OpenFile(strFileName,"r") local strString = fileHandle:read("*all") assert(fileHandle:close()) return strString end -- function StrLoadFromFile
Alternate Version
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function strLoadFromFile(strFileName) -- Load string from file -- -- Returns String from file, or a nil and an error value local fileHandle, err = io.open(strFileName,'r') if fileHandle then local strString = fileHandle:read("*all") fileHandle:close() return strString else return nil, err end end
Usage
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local str,err = strLoadFromFile('d:\\temp\\html test.lua') if err then print('Error:'..err) else print(str) end