open text file on server

[Skier88]

I want to use javascript to scan a text file on my website for a certain phrase, and report the results to the current page. How do I open the file? Do I have to read it all into a var to scan it, or can you read sequentially like in java? Thanks for reading.

[StoutFiles]

var txtFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
txtFile.open("GET", "http://my.remote.url/myremotefile.txt", true);
txtFile.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (txtFile.readyState === 4) { // Makes sure the document is ready to parse.
if (txtFile.status === 200) { // Makes sure it's found the file.
allText = txtFile.responseText;
lines = txtFile.responseText.split("\n"); // Will separate each line into an array
}
}
}
txtFile.send(null);

[Skier88]

Thank you. Does this work with all browsers?

[StoutFiles]

You'll have to test that on your own.

I don't use this code as PHP is 100% more reliable for opening and parsing text files.