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LoadFileToString

Declaration

Function LoadFileToString( const aFileName : string) : string

Function LoadFileToWideString( const aFileName : string) : widestring

Example

procedure OnMapEvent(var Value:Variant);

var data : string;

begin

data := LoadFileToString('c:\test.txt'); // reads file into string

LogInfo('First five characters from file: ' + Copy(data, 1, 5));

end;

Description

Loads the contents of file aFileName into a string. Also see SaveToFile.

Use the WideString version to handle Unicode characters.