How to read an entire file into a string variable?

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Floyd

Here's a trick that just occurred to me.

WriteString writes an integer, the length of the string, followed by the string data.
ReadString reads this back into a Blitz string.

So you could use Blitz to build a new file consisting of an integer ( the length of the original file ) followed by the original file.

Then use ReadString on this new file.