Not with the core JavaScript language. One way would be to utilise the 
FileSystemObject (search MSDN for examples), this is a COM class but marked 
as unsafe so unable to be used on web pages unless a low security scenario. 
For simple access from a web page IE has the 'download behavior' built in 
which can read text files from the server the web page originated, again 
search MSDN for examples.
Joe


>From: soni29@h...
>Reply-To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>Subject: [javascript] Reading a file with Javascript?
>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:18:05
>
>hi,
>is there a way to use javascript to read data in from a file?  If i had a
>file, text1.txt, and had two names in it, is there a way to get javascript
>to read them in and store them into variables?
>Thanks.
>
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