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READFILE(3am)		   GNU Awk Extension Modules		 READFILE(3am)

NAME
       readfile - return the entire contents of a file as a string

SYNOPSIS
       @load "readfile"

       result = readfile("/some/path")

DESCRIPTION
       The  readfile  extension	 adds a single function named readfile().  The
       argument is the name of the file to read.  The return value is a string
       containing the entire contents of the requested file.

       Upon error, the function returns the empty string and sets ERRNO.

EXAMPLE
       @load "readfile"
       ...
       contents = readfile("/path/to/file");
       if (contents == "" && ERRNO != "") {
	   print("problem reading file", ERRNO) > "/dev/stderr"
	   ...
       }

SEE ALSO
       GAWK:   Effective   AWK	 Programming,	filefuncs(3am),	 fnmatch(3am),
       fork(3am),  inplace(3am),  ordchr(3am),	readdir(3am),  revoutput(3am),
       rwarray(3am), time(3am).

AUTHOR
       Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.

COPYING PERMISSIONS
       Copyright © 2012, 2013, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission  is  granted	to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
       manual page provided the copyright notice and  this  permission	notice
       are preserved on all copies.

       Permission  is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
       manual page under the conditions for verbatim  copying,	provided  that
       the  entire  resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
       permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this  man‐
       ual page into another language, under the above conditions for modified
       versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a	trans‐
       lation approved by the Foundation.

Free Software Foundation	  Jan 15 2013			 READFILE(3am)
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