root/khoury/fileReadAsString

fileReadAsString

fun fileReadAsString(path: String): String

Gets the entire file contents as a string.

Given the following contents of simple_cards.txt (a 2-line file)...

front 1|back 1
front 2|back 2
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Example (REPL) usage (compare with fileReadAsList):

>>> fileReadAsString("simple_cards.txt")
res1: kotlin.String = front 1|back 1
front 2|back 2
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Return

the contents of the file as a string, or "" if it does not exist

Parameters

path

relative or absolute path to a file