text file reading

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“text files” can have a variety of meanings. A json, xml and csv files are all “text file”, but then so is an unstructured “readme.txt” document.

The node or nodes that you use largely depends on what it is you want to do with the data afterwards.

If you want to read the text file into rows of text, then the nodes mentioned by @hmfa are good, and there is some further info here:

How to read dat file

SK8-0411.xlsx (16.7 KB) SK8-0411 - Copy.txt (9.2 KB) The raw file is txt file, we want to save excel file, how to do

If you want to read the entire file into a single cell, then maybe the following recent forum topic can give some ideas:

Reading flat files into strings

I have a folder that contains a set of text files and need to read each file in that folder to create a table with one row per file and two columns: 1) filename and 2) all the text in the file as a string, preserving all whitespaces and newline characters and not trying to interpret or parse the contents of the files in any way. Surprisingly, it seems that there’s no standard node to accomplish this simple task. The closest one I could find is the Flat File Document Parser, but it produces parse…