Import .txt file content into cfm page

[ScottAtHelloMetro]

I'm using cfftp to download .txt files from a third-party content provider into a local folder. I need to display the text within the txt file in a cfm page.

Anybody have any good tips for importing or converting the contents of a .txt file so it will display within a cfm template?

Thank you.

Scott

[dempster]

Scott-
You haven't explained what the format of the text file is and how you want to display it. You can get the contents of a file with CFHTTP (if it's in a web-readable directory) and treat it as a query if it is in a delimited data format. Then you can use CFOUTPUT as you would with any other query.

You can also use CFFILE to read the contents of a text file and display it in your page. You can use HTML PRE tags or you can replace the CR/LF with a BR tag to force a line break.. Lots of options, depending on your particular situation.

[ScottAtHelloMetro]

Thanks Dempster.

Yes, I just read the .txt file using cffile and assigned it to a variable then displayed it.

Worked great.