File Load Content

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Loads the content of a file.

Action available for the following operating systems:

Parameters

• File Name <string> - The name of the loaded file. The user should indicate the full path of the file.

• Target <unquoted string> - The control or variable to save the content of the loaded file.

• Encoding<unquoted string> indicates the file encoding to use.

  1. Unicode UTF-16 LE (each character uses 2 bytes)

  2. ANSI/BINARY (each character uses 1 byte)

  3. Unicode UTF-8 (each character uses 1 byte to 4 bytes)

• Coded <unquoted string> - Defines if the loaded data is being coded or not. If user chooses YES to this parameter, values between '<' and '>' are considered to be the ASCII value and will be converted to the respective char, otherwise nothing happens.

In Unicode UTF-16 LE, the first 2 bytes must be the 0xFEFF BOM (Byte Order Mark).

In Unicode UTF-8 the first 3 bytes may optionally be 0xEFBBBF.