FileRead

Description

The fileRead function takes a files path as a string and returns the contents of the file as a string or null if the file does not exist.

Syntax

fileRead(string path)

• path is the path to a file or a link/junction to a file.

Remarks

• If the file specified in path does not exist, null is returned.
• If the file contains binary data the data is decoded as ASCII and returned as a string (so \u09 is interpreted as an HTAB character)
• If the file cannot be opened (e.g. because it is in use by another program), null is returned

Examples

hello.txt

Hello World!

This is a sample text file.

main.step

string contents = fileRead("hello.txt")

println(contents) // "Hello World!\n\n..."