You can load and read a file using the Filereference class: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/FileReference.html
Once the contents of the file are available, there is a pretty good method to read a CSV file described in this stack overflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20208667/how-to-read-csv-file-using-apache-file Hope this helps. Thanks, Om On Jul 3, 2015 3:18 PM, <modjkl...@comcast.net> wrote: > Looking for recommendations to read a text file in Flex web app (not AIR). > > Does a web app even have permission to read a text file located on the > client's computer? > > Text file is comma-separated data arranged in columns. The total number of > lines isn't known ahead of time. > > Ideally I'd like to read the file line by line (each line ending with a \n > character), the split the line based on the comma character to identify and > process individual elements. > > > > >
