On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 05:32:11 +0100, "C kennedy" <colmk at eircom.net> wrote:

> I need to read in a text file to the Squeak environment.
> How do I do this?

You create an instance of a FileStream on the file.

	file := FileStream fileNamed: 'test.txt'.

Then you can do things like...

Process a line at a time:

	[file atEnd] whileFalse: [
		line := file nextLine.
		"Process the line"
		]

Or just read the whole file into a String:

	string := file upToEnd.

etc... Look at the Stream protocol, particularily in Stream and
PositionableStream.

Later,
Jon

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