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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Hoe can i read..
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 06:59:24 +0200
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Robert Baer:

>    I have some stupid ideas to use javascrpt to (incrementally) read and 
> parse an array.
> 
>    The bad thing is that file is OUTSIDE any javascript function and i 
> see no way to do a generic? "capture"/read/access of data.

Define "outside".

Part of an HTML page? Then use the DOM.

Data which needs to be requested using HTTP? The use XHR.

External file? This may involve user interaction. For example see
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3582671/how-to-open-a-local-disk-file-with-javascript>



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