Extract content from a text file and save that content to a string variable by using
the Get text
action.
Procedure
To extract text from a text file, perform the following
steps:
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In the Actions palette, double-click or drag the
Get text
action from the Text file
package.
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In the Source file field, select an option to specify
the location of the text file:
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Control Room file to open a file from the Control Room.
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Desktop file to open a file from the device. This
field also accepts the file path input as a string variable or global
value.
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Variable to open a file by specifying a file
variable.
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In the Text encoding field, select an encoding to
specify the encoding that is applied on the text file. Data from the text file
will be retrieved based on the selected encoding option even if the input file
has a different encoding.
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ANSI
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UTF8
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UTF8 with BOM
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UNICODE
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Win1251
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UTF-16LE
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UTF-16BE
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Shift-JIS
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Detect automatically: identifies file encoding.
This option supports UTF-8 with BOM, ANSI, UTF-16LE, and UTF-16BE file
encoding.
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Select the Trim leading spaces and Trim
trailing spaces check boxes to remove the leading and trailing
spaces from the data extracted from the text file.
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In Save the outcome to variable field, select a string
variable to hold the output.