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I want to get content of text file. In addition, how can I use in JavaScript? e.g line by line or array?

Fatih TAN
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    server side or client side? – Mulan Jul 26 '16 at 21:58
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    Related : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13709482/how-to-read-text-file-in-javascript –  Jul 26 '16 at 22:00
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    Best to use AJAX for this. There is also a `FileReader` JavaScript Constructor, but it won't work on all Browsers. – StackSlave Jul 26 '16 at 22:05
  • PHPglue only if there is a purpose for transferring the file contents... Plus, the acronym AJAX has lost almost all of its meaning. – Mulan Jul 26 '16 at 22:10
  • Oh, you edited your comment. Yes, `FileReader` would still be asynchronous but we can stop saying AJAX as a catch-all for anything that is asynchronous. – Mulan Jul 26 '16 at 22:12

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It seems that you target client-side .

Then if your text file is hosted under the same project where page HTML contains or import the following script :

$.get('/docs/file.txt',{},function(content){
      let lines=content.split('\n');

       console.log(`"file.txt" contains ${lines.length} lines`)
      console.log(`First line : ${lines[0]}`)

});

Assume that if we have the following routing rule :

  • http://localhost/ ---> /var/www/html/index.html

/docs/file.txt should follow this rule :

  • http://localhost/docs/file.txt --> /var/www/html/docs/file.txt
Abdennour TOUMI
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Checkout the node fs module for this. You can read and write content both sync and async depending on what you're trying to do with it.

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

Mulan
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