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how to read a file in javascript

answered on March 15, 2020 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 4/10

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how to read a file in javascript

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fetch('file.txt')
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(text => console.log(text))
  // outputs the content of the text file

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Contributed on Mar 16 2021

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// As with JSON, use the Fetch API & ES6
fetch('something.txt')
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(data => {
  	// Do something with your data
  	console.log(data);
  });

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Contributed on Mar 15 2020

Kaotik

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javascript read file

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>Read Text File</title>
</head>
  
<body>
    <input type="file" name="inputfile"
            id="inputfile">
    <br>
   
    <pre id="output"></pre>
      
    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.getElementById('inputfile')
            .addEventListener('change', function() {
              
            var fr=new FileReader();
            fr.onload=function(){
                document.getElementById('output')
                        .textContent=fr.result;
            }
              
            fr.readAsText(this.files[0]);
        })
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

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Contributed on Mar 06 2022

Ramsey

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js reading file

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// get the file
fetch("path/to/file.extension")
	// get the text within the file
	.then((res) => res.text())
	// if you are reading from a json file:
	// .then((res) => res.json())
	// do something with the text
	.then((fileContents) => console.log(fileContents));

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Contributed on Nov 02 2022

MattDESTROYER

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