1. ZPL II, ZBI 2, Set-Get-Do, Mirror, WML Programming Guide
  2. ZBI Commands
  3. TXTLOAD
  • ZPL II, ZBI 2, Set-Get-Do, Mirror, WML Programming Guide
TXTLOAD

TXTLOAD

This function will read the contents of an ASCII text file into a ZBI string variable.
Format
TXTLOAD(DEST$, FILENAME$)
Parameters
  • DEST$
     = string to store the contents of
    FILENAME$
    .
  • FILENAME$
     = name of the file to read. Drive location and file name must be in quotation marks. The file extension must be either ".
    CSV
    " or ".
    TXT
    ".
Returns
The number of bytes read from the file. The function will return 0 if the file could not be read.
Example
This example shows how to print out the contents of a file. 
10 LET TXTSIZE = TXTLOAD(TXTDATA$, "E:MYDATA.TXT") 
20 PRINT STR$(TXTSIZE), "bytes:", TXTDATA$
Comments
The data originally in
DEST$
 will be overwritten upon completion of this function.