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Version: On-Premise 2.1

Read File

Activity Description​

Reads a text file and returns a one-column table of the file's content. To refer to the file content as plain text, use the Convert to Plain Text activity, or the shortcut %ReadFileActivityNamePlain%.

Output​

A ResultSet of the file's content.

Settings​

  • Path – The file's location.
  • Number of Lines – The number of lines to read.
  • Direction – Determines whether the file is read from top to bottom, or vice versa.
  • Line Contains – Fill in to return only lines that contain the specified phrase.
  • Host Name – The host name or IP address.
  • User Name – If required, the username of an account that has read-write access to the host.
  • Password – If required, the password of the account listed in the User Name field.