Visualyze Documentation
Visualyze Documentation
Visualyze DocumentationVisualyze Document AIVisualyze Robot AI
Visualyze Documentation
Visualyze DocumentationVisualyze Document AIVisualyze Robot AI
  • Welcome to Documentation
  • Requirements
  • Tutorials
    • Sample Robots
      • Email Reminder Bot
      • Automate: Password Generator
      • Robot For Periodic Covid19 Status Reports
      • Remove Blank Rows From Excel File
      • Translate Any Language to English
      • Gmail Attachment Sort Bot
      • Data Table Extraction (Pdf to Excel)
  • Courses & Certifications
    • Automation Courses & Guides
    • Level 1 - Beginner
  • Getting Started
    • Robot Studio
      • User Interface
        • Workflow Designer
      • Robots
      • Workflows
      • Activities
      • Document AI
        • Document Classifier
          • Create Classifier Window
          • Configure Classifier Window
          • Types
            • Keyword Classifier
        • Document Extractor
          • Create Extractor Window
          • Configure Extractor Window
          • Types
            • Regex Extractor
            • Form Extractor
            • Skill Extractor
            • LLM Extractor
          • Extractor Constraints
        • Document Viewers
          • Image Document Viewer
        • Text Preprocessing
        • Document Validation
          • Validation Window
      • Variables
        • User-defined variables
        • Activity variables
        • Objects
      • Arguments
      • Input & Output
      • Handling Files
      • Data Manipulation & Conversion
      • Editor Windows
        • String Modifications Window
        • PDF Viewer Window
        • XPath Helper
        • JSONPath Helper
        • Web Request Builder
        • Desktop Element Selector Editor Window
        • Web Element Selector Editor Window
        • Configure Scrape Data Window
        • Filter DataTable Window
        • Filter Data Tables Window
        • Build Data Table Window
        • Add Data Row Window
        • Html Editor Window
        • Create Document AI Client Window
        • Configure Task Data Window
      • Record & Execute
        • Desktop Recorder
          • Desktop Actions
          • Desktop Element Property
          • Desktop Element Conditions
        • Web Recorder
          • Web Actions
          • Web Properties
          • Web Element Conditions
      • Publish a Robot
      • Create Bot - Hello Human!
      • Debugging
    • Visualyze Assistant
      • Human Tasks
        • Introduction
        • Tasks Listing
        • Validation Task Window
    • Robot Cloud
      • Tenant & Workspaces
      • Robots
      • Hosts
      • Executions
      • Schedule
      • Storage
    • Document AI
    • Robot AI
    • Human Tasks
      • Creating a Robot with Human Tasks
      • Task Assignments
      • Completing Tasks
      • Managing Tasks
      • Advanced Topics
      • Troubleshooting
  • Activities
    • Overview
    • Workflow
      • Control
        • Invoke Method
        • Condition
        • Start
        • Assign
        • Assign Multiple
      • Loop
        • Repeated Loop
        • For Each
        • Loop End
        • Examples
      • Run Workflow
      • Write Log
    • DateTime
      • Subtract Date Time
      • Get DateTime
      • Convert DateTime
      • Add DateTime
      • DateTime Formats
        • Standard date and time format
        • Custom date and time format strings
    • Local System
      • Wait For Text On Screen
      • Wait For Hot Key
      • Show Desktop
      • Suspend Service
      • Wait For Service
      • Wait For Process
      • Resume Service
      • Stop Service
      • Start Service
      • Set Default Printer
      • Empty Recycle Bin
      • Run Command
      • Run VBScript
      • Power
      • Play Sound
      • Ping
      • Invoke Python Script
      • Get System Info
      • Get Display Info
      • Get Default Printer
    • Network
      • Web
        • Send Notification
        • Wait For Notification
        • Send HTTP Request
      • SSH
        • SSH Run Command
        • SSH Disconnect
        • SSH Connect Scope
      • FTP
        • Synchronize FTP Folder
        • Move FTP Files
        • Upload Folder
        • Upload File
        • Rename File
        • List FTP Folder
        • Invoke FTP Command
        • Folder Exists
        • File Exists
        • Enumerate Items
        • Download Files
        • Download Multiple Files
        • Download Multiple Files
        • Delete FTP Folder
        • Delete FTP File
        • Create FTP Folder
        • Close FTP Connection
        • Open FTP Connection
    • File
      • Common
        • List Folders
        • Rename File
        • Increment
        • Decrement
        • Print File
        • File Exists
        • Path Exists
        • Read Lines
        • Folder Exists
        • Read File Metadata
        • Wait For Files
        • Compress File/Folder
        • Write File
        • Decompress File
        • Read Text File
        • Move Folder
        • Move File
        • List files
        • Delete Folder
        • Delete File
        • Encode Text
        • Decode Text
        • Create Temp Folder
        • Create Temp File
        • Create Folder
        • Copy Folder
        • Copy File
        • Append Line
        • Sanitize Filename
      • XML
        • Set Element Value
        • Set Element Attribute
        • Insert Element Value
        • Get HTML Element
        • Get Element Value
        • Get Element Attribute
        • Evaluate XPath
        • Delete Element
        • Delete Attribute
      • PDF
        • Print PDF File
        • Append Image To PDF
        • Digitally Sign PDF
        • Validate PDF Digital Sign
        • Extract Image From PDF
        • Extract PDF Page
        • Extract Table From PDF
        • Extract Text From PDF
        • Merge PDF Files
        • Read PDF Elements
      • JSON
        • Filter JSON Array
        • Filter JSON Keys
        • Get Entry By Index
        • List JSON Properties
        • Json Array Entry Count
        • Data table to JSON Array
        • JSON Array to Data table
        • Set Key Value
        • Evaluate JSON Path
        • Delete Key Value
        • Create JSON
      • CSV
        • Write Csv File
        • Read Csv File
    • Collection
      • Find Item In Collection
    • Data
      • List
        • Create List
        • Add To List
        • Apply List Operation
        • Filter List
        • List to File
      • Dictionary
        • Add To Dictionary
        • Lookup Dictionary
        • Create Dictionary
      • String
        • Modify Text
        • Calculate Text Similarity
        • Replace Character
        • Find and Replace
        • Remove Character
        • Format Text
        • Trim Text
        • Split Text
        • Replace Text
        • Pad Text
        • Join Text
        • Get Text Length
        • Get Sub Text
        • Generate Random Text
        • Convert To Text
        • Compare Text
        • Change TextCase
        • Apply Regex
        • Append a Line
      • Datatable
        • DataRow
          • Get Data Row Values
          • Remove Data Row
          • Add Data Row
          • Find Row
          • Apply Row Filter
          • Remove Duplicate Rows
        • DataColumn
          • Rename Data Column
          • Remove Data Column
          • Add Data Column
          • Insert Data Column
          • Get Data Column
        • Apply DataTable Operations
        • Filter Data Tables
        • String To Data Table
        • Append Data Table
        • Extract Row/Column
        • Sort Data Table
        • Merge Data Table
        • LookUp Data Table
        • DataTable To String
        • Clear Data Table
        • Build Data Table
        • Join Data Table
      • Database
        • Execute Non Query
        • Execute Query
        • Close Connection
        • Open Connection
      • Image
        • Barcode
          • Encode String
          • Decode Barcode
          • Decode Multiple Barcode
        • Take Screenshot
        • Image To File
        • QR to Image
        • Image to QR
      • Cryptography
        • Hash File
        • Hash Text
        • Decrypt Text
        • Decrypt File
        • Encrypt Text
        • Encrypt File
    • Application
      • PowerShell
        • Invoke PowerShell
      • Mail
        • Outlook
          • Archive Outlook Mail
          • Replyto Outlook Mail
          • Save Outlook Attachment
          • Save Outlook Mail
          • Delete Outlook Mail
          • Move Outlook Mail
          • Get Outlook Contact List
          • Send Outlook Mail
          • Get Outlook Mail
        • Save Mail
        • Save Attachment
        • Get POP3 Mail
        • Send SMTP Mail
        • Move IMAP Mail
        • Get IMAP Mail
    • System
      • Kill Process
      • Start Process
      • ClipBoard
        • Set To Clipboard
        • Get From Clipboard
      • Launch Application
    • Environment
      • Play Beep
      • Get Environment Variable
      • Get Environment Folder
      • Get Credential
      • Request Credentials
      • Set Credential
    • Microsoft Office
      • Excel
        • Cell
          • Write Cell Value
          • Set Cell
          • Replace Cell
          • Read Cell Value
          • Read Cell Formula
          • Get Cell Color
          • Find Cell
          • Get Cell
        • Sheet
          • Copy Paste Sheet
          • Get Workbook Sheets
          • Get Workbook Sheet
          • Rename Sheet
          • Delete Sheet
          • Create Sheet
          • Read Sheet
        • Rows
          • Find Row
          • Read Row
          • Insert Row
        • Range
          • Apply Style
          • Write Range
          • Read Range
          • Fill Data Range
          • Delete Cell/Range
          • Copy Paste Range
          • Excel Range To Image
        • Columns
          • Read Column
          • Insert Column
        • Open Excel File
        • Close Excel File
        • Delete Row Column
        • Save Excel File
        • Find Duplicates
        • Excel To HTML
      • Word
        • Open Word Document
        • Close Word Document
        • Insert DataTable
        • Insert Image
        • Read Text
        • Write Text
        • Replace Text
        • Save Word Document
        • Append Text
        • Get Element
        • Get DataTables
        • Set Bookmark Content
    • UI Automation
      • Vision
        • Wait For Text
        • Image Exists
        • Indicate On Screen
        • Run OCR on Image
        • Run OCR on Screen
        • Check Text Exists
        • Find Image Position
        • Get Text Position
        • Get Element From Position
        • Hover Image
        • Hover Text
        • Click Text
        • Wait For Image
        • Click Image
      • Forms
        • Select File
        • Select Folder
        • Show Confirmation
        • Show Desktop Alert
        • Show Form
        • Show Input Message Box
        • Show Message
      • Web Browser
        • Take WebPage Screenshot
        • Goto URL
        • Wait
        • Get Table
        • Get Attribute
        • Select
        • Get Text
        • Find Elements
        • Goto URL
        • Set Text
        • Open Web Browser
        • Close Web Browser
        • Click
        • Set Attribute
        • Set Property
        • Scrape Data
        • Switch To
        • Web Automation Session Activity
        • Send Keys
      • SAP
        • Row
          • Set Scroll Position
          • Get All Rows
        • Connection
          • Get Active Session
          • Create Connection
          • End Transaction
          • Start Transaction
        • Action
          • Select Radio Button
          • Set CheckBox
          • Send Virtual Key
          • Set Focus
          • Select Menu Item
          • Click ComboBox
          • Get Text
          • Read Statusbar Info
          • Select ComboBox Item
          • Click Button
        • Column
          • Select Column
        • Find
          • Wait For Element
          • Find By Id
          • Find By Name
      • Desktop
        • Press Key
        • Type
        • Click
        • Focus Window
        • Change Window State
        • Change Window Position
      • CMD
        • Wait For Text
        • Write to Cmd Session
        • Read from Cmd Session
        • Close Cmd Session
        • Open Cmd Session
    • Document AI
      • Create Document AI Client
      • Text
        • Extract Text
        • Extract Entity
        • Invoke LLM
      • Tasks
        • Classify Document
        • Run Extractor
        • Preprocess Document
        • Show Validation Window
        • Update Extracted Field
    • Robot Cloud
      • Analytics
        • Update DataSet
        • Create DataSet
      • DataStore
        • Get Variable
        • Update Variable
        • Get Credential
        • Run Document Query
        • Update Document
        • Get Document
      • Human Task
        • Get Tasks
        • Remarks
          • Add Remark
        • Show Tasks
        • Update Task Status
        • Create Task
    • SAP
      • BAPI
        • Create SAP BAPI Connection
        • Invoke SAP BAPI
  • Integrations
    • GSuite
      • Setup
      • Activities
        • Create GSuite Connection Activity
        • Get Google Token
        • Drive
          • Upload File
          • Move File
          • Get File Info
          • Find Files And Folders
          • Download File
          • Delete File
          • Create New Spreadsheet
          • Create Folder
          • Create Document
          • Copy File
        • Sheets
          • Delete Filter
          • Find And Replace Cells
          • Column
            • Read Column
            • Add/Delete Columns
            • Insert Column
            • Hide/Unhide Columns
          • Row
            • Append Row
            • ReadRow
            • Add/Delete Rows
            • Insert Row
            • Hide/Unhide Row
          • Sheet
            • Download Spreadsheet
            • Get Sheet Info
            • Read Sheet
            • Hide Sheet
            • Unhide Sheet
            • Get Sheets
            • Copy Sheet
            • Rename Sheet
            • Delete Sheet
            • Add New Sheet
          • Range
            • Auto Fill Range
            • Copy Paste Range
            • Merge Range
            • UnMerge Range
            • Delete Range
            • Write Range
            • Clear Range
            • Read Range
          • Cell
            • Write Cell
            • Read Cell
    • Office 365
      • Setup
      • Activities
        • Excel
          • Create WorkBook
          • Add Sheet
          • Get Sheets
          • Read Cell
          • Write Cell
          • Read Column
          • Read Row
          • Read Range
          • Write Range
          • Append Range
          • Delete Range
          • Clear Range
          • Rename Sheet
          • Copy Range
          • Copy Sheet
          • Create Table
          • Delete Column
          • Delete Rows
          • Insert Column
          • Insert Rows
          • Get Table Range
          • VLookup Range
          • Get Cell Color
          • Set Range Color
        • Get Microsoft Token
        • Create Office365 Connection
        • Outlook
          • Get Mail
          • Get Contacts
          • Delete Mail
          • Send Mail
          • Move Mail
          • Forward Mail
          • Set Mail Categories
        • Files
          • Copy Item
          • Create Folder
          • Delete Item
          • Download File
          • Export As PDF
          • End Drive Loop
          • Find Files And Folders
          • Foreach File/Folder
          • Get Item Info
          • Move Item
          • Share Item
          • Upload File
        • Calendar
          • Add Attachment
          • Add Attendee
          • Add Location
          • Create Event
          • Delete Event
          • Find Meeting Times
          • Get Calendars
          • Modify Event
          • RSVP
          • Search Events
    • Azure
      • Run Form Recognizer
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  3. Common

Read Text File

Reads a given text file.

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Last updated 2 years ago

This activity reads the content of a given text file.

Input

  • Filename: Required The full path of the filename that is to be read.

  • File Encoding: Input file encoding. The available options are.

    • utf-8 (default)

Settings

  • Read As: Specify the input file type. The available options are.

    • PlainText (default)

    • XML

    • JSON

Output

  • Result: Stores the contents of the read file in a specified variable.

String Argument
String Variable
String