Clears an editor widget, reads the contents of a specified text file into the widget, and sets the widget's MODIFIED attribute to FALSE.

Return type: LOGICAL

Applies to: EDITOR widget

Syntax

READ-FILE ( filename )
filename
A character-string expression equal to the full or relative pathname of a file. If you specify a relative pathname, the READ-FILE( ) method searches PROPATH to find the file. The pathname can contain Unicode characters. See Internationalize ABL Applications for more information about Unicode.

If the operation is successful, the method returns TRUE.

In Windows, this method interprets a carriage return character followed by a line feed character as a text line terminator. In all other interfaces, this method interprets a carriage return character as a text line terminator.