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include("scripts/EAction.js");
include("scripts/library.js");

var appWin = EAction.getMainWindow(); 

// A full path and complete filename with suffix. 
// IMPORTANT: script engine processes backslash "\" as an escape character so each  "\" must be doubled as shown below
// var fileName = "C:\\Users\\Michael\\Documents\\QCAD_Working\\drawTable.txt";     

function readTextFile(fileName) {
	
	var fi = new QFileInfo(fileName); 

	// When the file doesn't exist then issue a warning and return 'undefined':
	
	if (!fi.exists()) {                                          
    appWin.handleUserWarning("File does not exist");
    return undefined;
	}   

   var file = new QFile(fileName);
   var flags = makeQIODeviceOpenMode(QIODevice.ReadOnly, QIODevice.Text);
    if (file.open(flags)) {
        var textStream = new QTextStream(file);
        setUtf8Codec(textStream);
        
		var inputArray = []
		while (!textStream.atEnd())
		{
			var line = textStream.readLine();			
			qDebug(line)			
			function parseLine(colString) {
				// Split the string by "|"
				const values = colString.split('|');

				// Trim whitespace from each value and remove surrounding quotes if present
				const trimmedValues = values.map(value => value.trim().replace(/^"|"$/g, ''));
				return trimmedValues;
			}
			
			var lineArray = parseLine(line)			
			inputArray.push(lineArray)
        }
		file.close();
        return inputArray;
    }
    return undefined;
}

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include("scripts/EAction.js");
include("scripts/library.js");

var appWin = EAction.getMainWindow();

// A full path and complete filename with suffix.
// IMPORTANT: script engine processes backslash "\" as an escape character so each  "\" must be doubled as shown below
// var fileName = "C:\\Users\\Michael\\Documents\\QCAD_Working\\drawTable.txt";

function readTextFile(fileName) {
    var file = new QFile(fileName);
    var flags = makeQIODeviceOpenMode(QIODevice.ReadOnly, QIODevice.Text);

    // When the file doesn't exist then issue a warning and return 'undefined':
    if (!file.open(flags)) {
        EAction.handleUserWarning("File does not exist");
        return undefined;
    }

    // Process an open file as stream:
    else {
        var textStream = new QTextStream(file);
        setUtf8Codec(textStream);

        var inputArray = [];
        while (!textStream.atEnd()) {
            var line = textStream.readLine();
            qDebug(line);

            // Skip empty lines:
            if (line.isEmpty()) {
                continue;
            }

            // Split the string up at "|":
            var lineArray = line.split("|");

            // Trim whitespace from each value and remove surrounding quotes if present:
            for (var i=0; i<lineArray.length; i++) {
                var value = lineArray[i].trim().replace(/^\"|\"$/g, "");
                lineArray[i] = value.trim();
            }

            // Collect textual line as an array:
            inputArray.push(lineArray);
        }
        file.close();
        return inputArray;
    }
};