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I haven't used JavaScript in a while and I can't seem to read a text file and display the contents.
I've tried onload as well as onloadend. If I just put reader.onload = alert('Hello'); the alert fires, but I can't get anything to work with the function.
Not exactly sure where to go from here. I've tried defining the function after reader.onload = function(evt)... but that doesn't work.
I've tried in Safari 6.0.5 and Chrome as well.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Pi to Colors</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
function readFile() {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = readSuccess;
function readSuccess(evt) {
var field = document.getElementById('main');
field.innerHTML = evt.target.result;
};
reader.readAsText("/pi.txt");
}
</script>
<div id="main">
</div>
</body>
</html>
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You can't grab a local file like that for security reasons.
Another underlying problem is that readAsText (and all the read functions) need the file's content and not its file path/name. You can grab this from the files collection of the input type="file" element. Here is how your code could work:
function readFile(file) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = readSuccess;
function readSuccess(evt) {
var field = document.getElementById('main');
field.innerHTML = evt.target.result;
};
reader.readAsText(file);
}
document.getElementById('selectedFile').onchange = function(e) {
readFile(e.srcElement.files[0]);
};
Here is the jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fstreamz/ngXBV/1/
Note: this code not work in safari browser
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