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Hi,

Im working on a little word game. I have a dictionary of words saved as a .txt file.

How do I load that in and assign to a variable ? or put into an array?

Cheers,

Tom

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHttpRequest

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/196498/how-do-i-load-the-contents-of-a-text-file-into-a-javascript-variable

Standard Javascript method for loading a file