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# Read In The Contents Of A File
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Deno offers some nice utilities out of the box like reading in the contents of
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a file from the filesystem. The `readTextFile` function is available on the
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`Deno` object.
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```typescript
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// Read a file using Deno
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const text: string = await Deno.readTextFile("./first_input.txt");
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```
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You use a top-level await with the function call and, assuming the file exists,
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it will read the contents in. In this case, I assign them to the `text`
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variable.
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For the file reading to work when the program is executed, you must use the
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`--allow-read` flag.
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```bash
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$ deno run --allow-read program.ts
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```
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[source](https://deno.land/manual@v1.14.0/examples/read_write_files)
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