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# LoadFileToString

**LoadFileToString** loads the contents of the file specified by **aFileName** into a string variable.

**LoadFileToString** does not handle unicode characters. To accommodate unicode, please see the WideString version [LoadFileToWideString](/statelake/scripting-reference/functions-and-procedures/file-functions/loadfiletowidestring).

**Declaration**: Function LoadFileToString(const aFileName : string) : string

An example follows.

```pascal
procedure OnMapEvent(var Value:Variant);
var vData : string;
begin
 //Reads file into string
  vData := LoadFileToString('C:\Temp\TodayTest.txt');
  LogInfo('First five characters from file: ' + Copy(vData, 1, 5));
end;
```