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Revision as of 16:17, 29 June 2010
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You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Load the entire contents of some text file as a single string variable.
If applicable, discuss: encoding selection, the possibility of memory-mapping.
Of course, one should avoid reading an entire file at once if the file is large and the task can be accomplished incrementally instead (in which case check File IO); this is for those cases where having the entire file is actually what is wanted.
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<lang e><file:foo.txt>.getText()</lang>
The file is assumed to be in the default encoding.
PowerShell
<lang powershell>Get-Content foo.txt</lang> With explicit selection of encoding: <lang powershell>Get-Content foo.txt -Encoding UTF8</lang>
Python
<lang python>open(filename).read()</lang>
This returns a byte string and does not assume any particular encoding.