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Home >> Text Files >> Reading from a Text File This code shows how to read in the contents of a text file and save it to a variable.
<% ' declare our variables dim fso dim file1 dim ourFile dim fileContents ' this is the file to read from ourFile = "Filename.txt" ' this will open the file and read the contents Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set file1 = fso.CreateTextFile(Server.MapPath(ourFile), True) fileContents = file1.readall file1.close ' this cleans up our objects set file1 = nothing set fso = nothing ' our file is now stored in variable: fileContents %> What is ASP?
<?php // this is our filename $ourFile = "Filename.txt"; // now we open the file and read it $fhandle = fopen($ourFile, 'r'); $fileContents = fread($fhandle, 5); fclose($fhandle); // our file is now stored in variable: $fileContents ?> What is PHP?