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Name  

loadStream()

   
Examples   
InputStream input = loadStream("sometextfile.txt"); 
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(input); 
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(isr); 
 
String line; 
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { 
  println("next line is: " + line); 
}

Description   Loads a file as a Java InputStream. Reads through a file sequentially as it is downloading or if the file is too large to read at once. The file must be located in the "data" directory or specified by a URL. The file can also be gzip compressed and if its name has a .gz extension it will automatically be decompressed while reading.
   
Syntax   
loadStream(filename)
   
Parameters  
filename   String: name of the file or url to load
   
Returns   InputStream
   
Usage   Web & Application
   
Related   loadStrings()
loadBytes()
saveStrings()
saveBytes()
   
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