Forms Processor Advanced Commands

&slurp ("variable","filename");

• variable - the name of the Form Processor variable into which the contents filename is read.
• filename - the name of the file which should be read into variable.

Example:

# read the contents of the file 'www/file.html.count' into $data

&slurp ("data","www/file.html.count");

# print out a dynamic file

format screen source www/welcome.html

format screen
There have been $data hits to this page
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See also:  &set_lock ("filename") and &free_lock("filename");