best way to load arrays with large amounts of data?

[Marshal Anderson]

I'm working on an application that requires a lot of internal data -
short texts, numbers, switches etc. At the moment the only way I have
of loading these is long lines of Array[1,2,3 etc]=The Data. In the VB
version I read data in from text files - is there a similar feature in
JavaScript - or at least soem thing mroe flaxible than lines and lines
of assignments?

Marshal

[Evertjan.]

Marshal Anderson wrote on 27 okt 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

I'm working on an application that requires a lot of internal data -
short texts, numbers, switches etc. At the moment the only way I have
of loading these is long lines of Array[1,2,3 etc]=The Data. In the VB
version I read data in from text files - is there a similar feature in
JavaScript - or at least soem thing mroe flaxible than lines and lines
of assignments?

I hope you are not talking clientside javascript,
but w/cscript or serverside asp/jscript?

var fileContent = 'soem thing\nmroe flaxible\nthan lines';
// the above should be replaced with your file getting routine

var arr = fileContent.split(/\n/);
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