Load a text file and find number of characters in the file - JavaScript

Javascript Web Development Front End Technology Object Oriented Programming

Suppose we have a data.txt file that lives in the same directory as our NodeJS file. Suppose the content of that file is −

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We are required to write a JavaScript function that loads this external text file into our js file and returns the number of characters in this file.

Example

Let’s write the code for this function −

const fs = require('fs');
const requireFile = async () => {
   const data = fs.readFileSync('./data.txt', 'utf-8');
   const len = data.length;
   return len;
};
requireFile().then(res => console.log(res)).catch(err => {
   console.log('some error occured');
})

Output

The output in the console: −

AmitDiwan

Published on 15-Sep-2020 11:31:53

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