Member Avatar for leegeorg07

Hi again,

I'm trying to load a text file into a variable and I know of the jquery load

$("div").load("file.txt");

but I want to be able to load it into a var, does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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Member Avatar for SikoSoft

Well, if you are using jQuery (and you said you are), you can do this:

var test = $.get(url).responseText;

Member Avatar for leegeorg07

so I would use
$blah = $.get("file.txt").responseText;
?

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