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ReadFileToString

ReadFileToString - returns a string with the contents of the named file.

Declaration

Source position: fileutil.pas line 74

function ReadFileToString(

  const Filename: string

):string;

Arguments

Filename

  

The name of the file for processing.

Function result

The contents of the file as a string, or an empty string if there is an error or the file is empty.

Description

ReadFileToString opens the file and reads its contents into a Stream, then reads the stream to construct the Result string.

Errors

If there is an error while reading the file, an Exception is raised and an empty string is returned.