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file.Read

  string file.Read( string fileName, string gamePath = "DATA" )
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Description

Returns the content of a file.

Beware of casing -- some filesystems are case-sensitive. SRCDS on Linux seems to force file/directory creation to lowercase, but will not modify read operations.

Arguments

1 string fileName
The name of the file.
2 string gamePath = "DATA"
The path to look for the files and directories in. See this list for a list of valid paths.

Returns

1 string
The data from the file as a string, or nil if the file isn't found.

Example

Prints out the content of helloworld.txt.

print( file.Read( "helloworld.txt", "DATA" ) )
Output:
This is the content!

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