# read_file_text: Windows File Text Contents - Catalog: `FileSystem` - Label: File Text Contents - Retrieve: true ## Parameters of Table Function | Name | Data Type | Required | Default Value | Documentation | |---|:---:|:---:|:---:|---| | `encoding` | `string` | ☐ | | Character encoding, defaults to UTF8, alternative names listed in code page table on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.encoding?view=netframework-4.8. | | `ignore_errors` | `boolean` | ☐ | | Whether to ignore errors when accessing the file. Defaults to false. | | `path` | `string` | ☑ | | Relative or absolute path to the file. | | `record_separator` | `string` | ☐ | | Record separator is a text signaling the start of a new record. Defaults to platform-specific new line. | | `separate_on_record` | `boolean` | ☐ | | Separates file contents into records based upon the record separator when true. Returns full file contents as one large string when false. Defaults to false. | ## Columns of Table Function The columns of the table function `read_file_text` are shown below. Each column has an SQL data type. | Name | Data Type | Label | Required | Documentation | |---|:---:|---|:---:|---| | `file_contents` | `string` | | ☐ | | | `file_path` | `string` | | ☐ | | | `is_existing` | `boolean` | | ☐ | |