How can you read a file line by line in JavaScript?

Question

I\'m writing a web-app for the iPad that will be loading data from a text file. (A sample data set is around ~400 kb). I have everything set up except the file reading. The

Answer 1

With jQuery:

myObject = {}; //myObject[numberline] = "textEachLine";
$.get('path/myFile.txt', function(myContentFile) {
   var lines = myContentFile.split("\r\n");

   for(var i  in lines){
      //here your code
      //each line is "lines[i]"

      //save in object "myObject": 
      myObject[i] = lines[i]

      //print in console
      console.log("line " + i + " :" + lines[i]);
   }
}, 'text');