Open Files

[Alan Fox]

Hello all
Im new to javascript. I have a text file and I want to open it and store whats in that line by line into a variable.

I tried some stuff like

filename = "file.txt"
result = filename.open ("r")

but im not sure what im doing

Please help
Thanks a million
Al

[Bosko]

You can't really read/edit files with javascript,but you can import XML documents:

http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/xmlextras/xmlextras.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/importxml.html

[Alan Fox]

Thank you both for your help