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ReadFile

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Reads a file from the local filesystem and returns its contents.

app.ReadFile( file, encoding? ) → String

Example - Append file and get line count

function OnStart()
{
    app.WriteFile( "myFile.txt", "Hello World from Copy\n", "Append" );

    var txt = app.ReadFile("myFile.txt");
    var length = txt.split("\n").length;
    app.ShowPopup("myFile contains " + length + " lines");
}

from native import app

def OnStart():
    app.WriteFile("myFile.txt", "Hello World from Copy\n", "Append")

    txt = app.ReadFile("myFile.txt")
    length = len(txt.split("\n"))
    app.ShowPopup("myFile contains " + str(length) + " lines")

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String: file path or content:// uri

String: “US-ASCII” or “UTF-8” or “UTF-16” or “UTF-16BE” or “UTF-16LE” or “windows-1252” or “ISO-8859-1” or “base64”