FileToStr Function (String)

Returns the contents of a file as a character string.

Namespace: XSharp.VFP
Assembly: XSharp.VFP (in XSharp.VFP.dll) Version: 2.21

Syntax

 FUNCTION FileToStr(
	cFileName AS STRING
) AS STRING

public static string FileToStr(
	string cFileName
)

cFileName: Type: String
Specifies the name of the file whose contents are returned as a character string. If the file is in a directory other than the current default directory, include a path with the file name.

Type: String
Character

Remarks

Note that the size of the character string FileToStr( ) returns can be very large.

Examples

1CD HOME()
2cRedist=FileToStr("REDIST.TXT")
3?OCCURS(".MSM",cRedist)