In this tutorial I'll briefly explain how one can load the content of an ASCII file into a single string.
The deferred class FILE cannot be used directly as it is deferred.
The descendant PLAIN_TEXT_FILE is what we're actually looking for.
Basic steps
The basic steps are the following:
local
l_file:
PLAIN_TEXT_FILE
l_content:
STRING
do
create l_file.
make_create_read_write (a_path
)
l_file.
read_stream (l_file.
count)
l_content := l_file.
last_string.
twin
l_file.
close
end
