Using a stream character, read a file and convert the entry bytes to the indicated encoding. Returns a String. If encoding is not indicated, it is used the encoding which have the server defined in the file server.xml.

1 file.chars.read

<file.chars.read encoding='encoding'/>

Attributes
Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
Aencoding	string				Indicates the encoding of the string which is generated with the result of the file content, for example ISO-8859 or UTF-8. If not specified, the one defined in the configuration file is used for the server.

Returns
Type	Description
String	String of the file content.

Example

Get a string with the file content and emits the result by the console. Encoding is indicated so the generated string had characters of tje indicated encoding.

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<xsql-script name='file_chars_read_sample1'>
    <body>
        <println>
            <file.chars.read encoding="UTF-8"><file name='test.xml' type='absolute' /></file.chars.read>
        </println>
    </body>
</xsql-script>