Question

I want to read text file’s comma separated variables in a java script array
right now i have hard coded values like this

var arrUserTags = new Array('{{Name}}','{{Address}}','{{Company}}');

but i want to read it from a text file dynamically on page load
how can i read it?

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I am done with below solution but now i am facing 1 more problem.
When i do changes to text file that don’t become effective, while the browser takes the old values only? How to sort it out?

Answer 1

You need AJAX to load the file:

xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.open("GET", path, true);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
    if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200) {
        parse(xmlhttp.responseText);
    }
}

And then Split the text:

function parse (text) {
    var array = text.split(",");
    //Do something
}