Read text file in LCB

[[-hh]]

Is there a way to read in a simple UTF8 text file to a string in LCB?

I found only this way to read and write the _raw data_ of a file, usable for binary data/ image data.

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variable tvalidFilePath as String
get/set the contents of file validFilePath

Thanks

Hermann

[peter-b]

Work on text encoding/decoding for LCB has been stalled since February 2015: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/1754

In my personal projects I'm currently bind the MCStringEncode/MCStringDecode C++ functions directly: https://github.com/peter-b/undergrowth/ ... il.lcb#L24