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.

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