I need to read a file from a specific path in the hard drive of my computer using Javascript (or using JQuery, it doesn't matter). I have been searching in Google but the things that I found are not really helpful. The closest thing that I have is:
function readSingleFile(evt) {
//Retrieve the first (and only!) File from the FileList object
var f = evt.target.files[0];
if (f) {
var r = new FileReader();
r.onload = function(e) {
var contents = e.target.result;
alert( "Got the file.\n"
+"name: " + f.name + "\n"
+"type: " + f.type + "\n"
+"size: " + f.size + " bytes \n"
+ "starts with: " + contents.substr(1, contents.indexOf("\n"))
);
}
r.readAsText(f);
} else {
alert("Failed to load file");
}
}
document.getElementById('fileinput').addEventListener('change', readSingleFile, false);
It allows to select a file using a file chooser, and then it display the contents of the file. I need to do a program that reads a file in which you give the location explicitly, for example c:\files\test.txt, and it prints the contents of the test.txt file.
I Googled this a lot without success, any help is welcome.
