Question

Using .get() is it possible to read only the first line of a .txt file?

something like:

jQuery.get('file.txt', function(data) {
   alert(data);
   //process text file line by line
   $('#div').html(data.replace('\n','<br>'));
});

but read only the first line?

Any other suggestion?

Answer 1

This might be a little faster than the version with split, as it won’t split the whole data string, but instead it just searches for first newline.

data.substr(0, data.indexOf("\n"));