Reading input string from a text file in progress4gl

Question

I have a .txt file having some text. I want to read this file and store it into a string. Is there available any function for that? Or how to do it ? please help

Answer 1

define variable s as longchar no-undo.

copy-lob from file "fileName.txt" to s.

Answer 2

DEF VAR ch-var AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.

INPUT FROM VALUE(file-name).

REPEAT:

IMPORT UNFORMATTED ch-var.

END.