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Read from File

Automation Workshop includes the Read from File Action which reads specified file content that can be seamlessly used later by using the Variable Wizard in other Actions. It is possible to limit the amount of data to be read.

Features & highlights

  • Automatically read file content to make it available for subsequent Actions.
  • Read file content from a particular place in a file (skip defined amount of data at the beginning of file).
  • An option to specify the exact amount of data to be read from a file.
  • Auto-detect and read ASCII, Unicode, UTF-7, UTF-8, and UTF-16 text files. And all Windows built-in code page encodings.
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Usage examples

Documentation

  • File · Provide a file to read its content into a variable.
  • Options · Select how many bytes to read, and how many to skip.

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Tutorial

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