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  Reading a txt file

  Posted by Frank Lima on June 12, 2012 at 2:04 am

  I am using Expressions to read in an external txt file into a text layer. How would I just be able to read the contents of a txt file into the text layer’s ‘source text’ attribute?

  Frank Lima replied 14 years, 1 month ago 42,914 Members · 1 Reply
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  Frank Lima

  June 12, 2012 at 6:38 pm

  I have this piece of code here but it makes a comparison and all I want it to do is just read the contents of the txt file:
  
try
{
//If Apple OS X, then use this directory format
if ($.os.indexOf("Mac") != -1)
{
myPath = "/directory/";
}
//If using Windows XP and above, use this directory format
else
{
myPath = "file://c:\\directory\";
}

  //Must use dynamic name allocation in relation to after effects name, using data.txt as a temporary placeholder
  myPath += "data.txt";

  //COMPARISON DONE HERE, JUST WANT TO READ CONTENTS OF THE TXT FILE
  $.evalFile (myPath);
  eval(thisComp.name);
  }

  //Catch and display error if no file is found
catch(err)
{
"File Not Found";
}


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