read text file

The "open" function suggests that it can be used for a world file or a text (.txt) file.

I have another app that writes data to a .txt file occasionally that I'd like to read into mushclient, but beyond the documentation for the open(filename) function I can't see anything to read lines, characters, whatever from the file.

Is the file just read in as a block of text to the variable specified eg:

var somevar = open(filename);

Pompey1

You don't need a MUSHclient function to read a text file, Javascript will do that itself. I am not a big expert of Javascript, but a Google of "javascript open file" returned lots of examples.

An example might help, see this page:

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?id=1297

Scroll down to the Jscript part, that shows reading an entire file into a variable.

Yeah, but I'm having problems getting the activex object for file handling to work under wine. I'll move the discussion to mushclient -> wine.

Pompey1

Is there an issue with using the Notepad functions in MUSHclient to open the file into the notepad and rip all the information out of there using GetNotepadText? That's how I had been doing it for a while ago for a PK list.