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Load a text file and find number of characters in the file - JavaScript
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: −
399
Updated on: 15-Sep-2020
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