ReadFileText (String filePath, String codePage)

Name	ReadFileText
Syntax	ReadFileText (String filePath, String codePage)
Purpose	To read and return all contents of the file.
Description	Reads the entire text of the file and returns the text, considering the provided codePage string. Use this function only for very small files.
Return Type	String
Parameter	filePath [System.String] – Full path of the file codepage [System.String] – Code page of the encoding to use

Example

In this example, we are passing the required parameter to the function transformation object using a Variables object.

Where,

filePath = C:\Users\Kanwal.Azim\OneDrive - Astera Software\Desktop\Documentation Projects\Functions Documentation\Files\ReadFileText-codePage\Test.txt

codepage = 65001 (UTF-8 Unicode)

Right-click on the function transformation object and select Preview Output. You can see that Astera Data Stack has returned the entire text of the specified file.