read
Reads plain text or data from a file.
By default, the file will be read as UTF-8 and returned as a string.
If you specify encoding: none
, this returns raw bytes instead.
Example
An example for a HTML file: \
#let text = read("example.html")
#raw(text, lang: "html")
Raw bytes:
#read("tiger.jpg", encoding: none)

Parameters
path
Path to a file.
For more details, see the Paths section.
encoding
The encoding to read the file with.
If set to none
, this function returns raw bytes.
Variant | Details |
---|---|
"utf8" | The Unicode UTF-8 encoding. |
Default: "utf8"