Unity Load text from resources

Question

I'm able to change the text of a UILabel (named about) with the following:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class about : MonoBehaviour
{
   void Start ()
   {
      UILabel lbl = GetComponent<UILabel>();
      lbl.text = "Hello World!";
   }
}

However things go awry when I want to load the label text from a text file in resources (Assets/Resources/about.txt)

lbl.text = Resources.Load(Application.dataPath + "/Resources/about") as String

So I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, and yes I have looked here.

Answer 1

I searched for alot of methods online and implemented them, but none of them worked. So I went to Unity docs. Here is a link hope it helps. Unity Read Resource
Read it carefully.

Edit:
here is a simple implementation:

• Create Resources folder in Assets.
• Place your text file in that folder(Resources).

code:

var textFile = Resources.Load<TextAsset>("file name only not path and no file extension(.txt)");

//store it in any List line by line(optional)
List<String> words = new List<string>(textFile.text.Split('\n'));