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Feb 16.2006

Is there a way to use Javascript to grab the contents of a file, and output the content?

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@bathurst_guyFeb 16.2006 — "of a file" as in a html file, a txt file or a word document? From what I know it can get it from html or maybe txt (if they are online) but I think thats about its limitations. You may need a server side script, like PHP, or most likely Java or something else.
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@TheBearMayFeb 16.2006 — Borrowed this code from here some time ago. Only restriction is that the file must be in the same domain or you will get a security violation.

<i>
</i>function getFile(fileName){
oxmlhttp = null;
try{
oxmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
oxmlhttp.overrideMimeType("text/xml");
}
catch(e){
try{
oxmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch(e){
return null;
}
}
if(!oxmlhttp) return null;
try{
oxmlhttp.open("GET",fileName,false);
oxmlhttp.send(null);
}
catch(e){
return null;
}
return oxmlhttp.responseText;
}

alert(getfile("pathToFile"));
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