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ReadFileToString

ReadFileToString - returns a string with the contents of the named file

Declaration

Source position: fileutil.pas line 173

function ReadFileToString(

  const Filename: String

):String;

Arguments

Filename

  

The name of the file for processing

Function result

The contents of the file as a string, or an empty string if there is an error or the file is empty

Description

ReadFileToString - returns a string with the contents of the named file

Opens the file and reads its contents into a Stream, then reads the stream to construct the Result string

Errors

If there is an error in reading the file, an exception is raised and an empty string is returned