HTML5 FileReader how to return result?

Question

I use JS FileReader. I want to get result after file reading operation and work with this data. FileReader is asynchronous and I don\'t know when result is ready. How to get

Answer 1

Here's the javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#file_input').on('change', function(e) {

        function updateProgress(evt) {
            if (evt.lengthComputable) {
                // evt.loaded and evt.total are ProgressEvent properties
                var loaded = (evt.loaded / evt.total);
                if (loaded < 1) {
                    // Increase the prog bar length
                    style.width = (loaded * 200) + "px";
                }
            }
        }

        function loaded(evt) {
            // Obtain the read file data    
            var fileString = evt.target.result;
            // Handle UTF-16 file dump
            $('#output_field').text(fileString);
        }
        var res = readFile(this.files[0]);

        var reader = new FileReader();

        reader.readAsText(this.files[0], "UTF-8");

        reader.onprogress = updateProgress;
        reader.onload = loaded;


    });
});

function readFile(file) {
    var reader = new FileReader(),
        result = 'empty';

    reader.onload = function(e) {
        result = e.target.result;
    };

    reader.readAsText(file);

    return result;
}

And of course, the HTML portion:

Seems to work for *.txt files.

See this fiddle.