Not works fs.readFile in node js

Question

I have:

 fs.readFile(\'../services/Prescipcion.xml\', \"utf8\", function (err, data) {
    console.log(\"err->\", err);
    console.log(\"data\", data);
 });
         


        

Answer 1

you can use relative or absolute path as fs.readFile argument , but the point is that i got stumped with this was:

if you have let path = 'c:\a\b\c.d and you want to use it as an arg for fs.readFile(path, {'utf-8'}, (err, content) => {//...your stuffs}) you should take care that \ is an escape character in js, so fs read your path as c:abc.d then it will use this path as a relative path so fs will search for C:\Users\dir_to_your_project\c:abc.d which is obviously not a valid path and it results in a Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory... error

so how to fix this issue?

it's very simple you should just replace \ with \\ in your desired path before using it as an arg in fs.readFile():

new_path_for_fsReadFileArg = path.replace(/\\/g,"\\\\");