Read Text File into String Variable

Reads an entire text file into a string variable.

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require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'

fac = Chilkat::CkFileAccess.new()

#  Reads the entire contents of a text file into a string variable.
#  The 2nd arg specifies the character encoding used for
#  the contents of the text file.
fileText = fac.readEntireTextFile("hamlet.xml","utf-8")

print fileText + "\n";