Reads an entire TextStream file and returns the resulting string.

object.ReadAll( );

The object is always the name of a TextStream object.

Remarks

For large files, using the ReadAll method wastes memory resources. Other techniques should be used to input a file, such as reading a file line by line.

The following example illustrates the use of the ReadAll method:

[JScript]
function GetEverything()
{
   var fso, f;
   var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);
   f.Write("Header");
   f.Write("1234567890987654321");
   f.Close();
   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
   return(f.ReadAll());
}
[VBScript]
Function ReadAllTextFile
   Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
   Dim fso, f
   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
   f.Write "Hello world!"
   Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
   ReadAllTextFile =   f.ReadAll
End Function

See Also

Read Method | ReadLine Method | Skip Method | SkipLine Method
Applies To: TextStream Object