| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 700 at 2013-06-08.

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7.6::
Stdio

# Method Stdio.read_file()

Method read_file

  `string read_file(string filename)`
  `string read_file(string filename, int start, int len)`

Description

  Read len lines from a file filename after skipping start lines and return those lines as a string. If both start and len are omitted the whole file is read.

See also

  read_bytes() , write_file()