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I need to save some data in a file and when loading the page i want to read this file and add this data to the page. I don't know why but this assignment is useless so we can't use database nor server stuff, so i have to save and read from a local file.

I searched the net and found knew that it is not allowed to access files directly from javascript but using the FileAPI in HTML5 i can select a file to read.

So my question is how is this done because there are no resources about this, i simply need to read a file and into a string. Thanks,

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  • By assignment, do you mean this is for a class? If it is, please add a homework label. Commented Nov 5, 2011 at 18:47

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For using the File API (HTML5) including reading/writing the content of local files and some sample source code see these links:

You should be aware that not all borwser/versions support all of the above AND that access to local filesystem depends on security settings...

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The html5rocks links is particularly helpful.
Great links buddy, but i'm having a problem with initializing this file and it is giving me security error, any idea how to resolve this?
@Ameen as I wrote any access to filesystem is prone to security settings... these you can't resolve in code - it is a setting in the client (browser)!
ok any idea how to do this in google chrome because i tried to deactivate anything i consider security and still getting the same error.
@Ameen sorry, no idea - I don't use Chrome :-(
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