FileToString

Icetips Utilities Documentation 7/6/2014

String Class: FileToString

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Prototype:

(String pFileName),String

pFileName

Name of (text) file to read into string

Returns

String containing the contents of the file

This method calls the ReadFileToString method and returns the contents of the FileString property. After this method is called the FileString property is set to the entire contents of the pFileName file.

Example:

ITS ITStringClass

S String(1024)

Code

S = ITS.FileToString('test.txt')

! S now contains the contents of test.txt or the first 1024 bytes if test.txt is larger than 1024 bytes.