Task

Load the entire contents of some text file as a single string variable.

If applicable, discuss: encoding selection, the possibility of memory-mapping.

Of course, in practice one should avoid reading an entire file at once
if the file is large and the task can be accomplished incrementally instead
(in which case check File IO);
this is for those cases where having the entire file is actually what is wanted.




mata
f = fopen("somedata.txt", "r")
fseek(f, 0, 1)
n = ftell(f)
fseek(f, 0, -1)
s = fread(f, n)
fclose(f)
end