jQuery: read text file from file system

Question

I am trying to read a text file using jquery, like this:

// LOAD file and split line by line and append divs
$.get(\'myFile.txt\', function(data) {    
    v         


        

Answer 1

A workaround for this I used was to include the data as a js file, that implements a function returning the raw data as a string:

html:

  
  



  
check out the data!
  

script.js:

// function wrapper, just return the string of data (csv etc)
function getData () {
    return 'look at this line of data\n\
oh, look at this line'
}

See it in action here- http://plnkr.co/edit/EllyY7nsEjhLMIZ4clyv?p=preview The downside is you have to do some preprocessing on the file to support multilines (append each line in the string with '\n\').