<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>read_file</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rivet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet"><link rel="up" href="commands.html" title="Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables"><link rel="prev" href="parse.html" title="parse"><link rel="next" href="unescape_string.html" title="unescape_string"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">read_file</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parse.html"><img src="images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="unescape_string.html"><img src="images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table></div><div class="refentry" title="read_file"><div class="refentry.separator"><hr></div><a name="read_file"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>read_file — 
				Read the entire contents of a file and return it as a string.			
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				This is a utility command which loads the entire content of
				a file and returns it as a result.
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