Get filename after filereader asynchronously loaded a file

Question

I am loading several files in a directory in order to parse some data from them. This works great so far, but I would like to know which file I am looking at. So I need the

Answer 1

Create a closure around the File to capture the current file. Then you can get the filename.

An example: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/#toc-reading-files

Closure to capture the file information.

function parseData(entries){
  for (var i=0; i

And the called function gets an additional argument

function createListItem(evt, file) {
  console.log(evt.target.result)
  console.log(file.name);
}