Reading input string from a text file in progress4gl

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I have a .txt file having some text. I want to read this file and store it into a string. Is there available any function for that? Or how to do it ? please help

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '12 at 12:46

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define variable s as longchar no-undo.

copy-lob from file "fileName.txt" to s.

answered Apr 02 '12 at 12:46

Tom Bascom

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '12 at 12:42

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DEF VAR ch-var AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.

INPUT FROM VALUE(file-name).

REPEAT:

IMPORT UNFORMATTED ch-var.

END.

answered Apr 02 '12 at 12:42

Tim Kuehn

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Caution if the file is not properly terminated you will end up missing last line or duplicate line.https://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/000056072 – kiran Feb 24 '21 at 16:12

Reading input string from a text file in progress4gl

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