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Subject: Re: methods for web app to read text file on client's computer?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but these functions by default can only read client files if the swf runs locally on their computer. If I'm making a web app running in a browser, the sandbox prevents accessing client file contents. I'm thinking only AIR allows permissions for reading client files. 

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e3f.html 

I prefer to integrate the file reading/processing into my existing web app, rather than give the customer a 2nd application to use (e.g. AIR). But I don't see a way around this. Can anyone comment if I missed something? 

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From: "pkumar.flex" <prashakumar@gmail.com> 
To: users@flex.apache.org 
Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 9:35:55 PM 
Subject: Re: methods for web app to read text file on client's computer? 

check for URLLoader & FileReference for file reading from client computer. 
CSV parsing code , you can search on google. 

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:26 AM, modjklist [via Apache Flex Users] < 
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> Looking for recommendations to read a text file in Flex web app (not AIR). 
> 
> Does a web app even have permission to read a text file located on the 
> client's computer? 
> 
> Text file is comma-separated data arranged in columns. The total number of 
> lines isn't known ahead of time. 
> 
> Ideally I'd like to read the file line by line (each line ending with a \n 
> character), the split the line based on the comma character to identify and 
> process individual elements. 
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