FileHandle.read

The read method of the FileHandle class returns a string containing the file contents starting from the current position and reading until the end of the file or a set number of code points.

Parameter Name	Type	Default Value	Meaning
codePointCount	number		number of code points that need to be read in. Reads to the end of the file, if no parameter is supplied.

This will read the entire file into the variable data.

reader = file.open("fileToRead.txt", "r")
data = reader.read
reader.close