_readFile ·

_readFile is used to read text files.

Syntax:

_readFile(filePath)

Returns the contents of the file as a single String.

The parameters are:

• filePath: Path of file to read. Can be relative to where Sahi was started from (sahi/bin in most cases)

This is the simplest way of reading a file’s contents. This can be used to read data from a csv file or a tab separated file to perform data driven testing.

var $fileContents = _readFile("C:\\abc.txt"); var $SEPARATOR = ","; // or "\t" for tab var $data = new Array(); var $lines = $fileContents.replace(/\r/g, '').split("\n"); for (var $i=0; $i<$lines.length; $i++){ $data[$i] = $lines[$i].split($SEPARATOR); }

$data is now a 2 dimensional array of values.
For eg. if you had a file with these lines:
red, apple green, banana

$data would be
$data[0][0] "red" $data[0][1] "apple" $data[1][0] "green" $data[1][1] "banana"

To access values from $data through a loop:
for (var $i=0; $i < $data.length; $i++){ var $row = $data[$i]; _alert($row[0]+" "+$row[1]); }