$read function usage

[kimble]

Hello,

Me again with another question.

I am trying to read the contents of a txt file with the $read function and store it as a var with the populate variables processor.

I have this configured as:

set user variable %s_watermark% to $read("%recursed_path~1\watermark.txt)

I can see this gets picked up in the logs as:

"split_id": "1-0-0",
"event": "pre_evaluation",
"type": "trace",
"context": "node execution",
"host": "redacted",
"data": {
"name": "s_watermark",
"data": "_MyFileRead(\"foldername\\watermark.txt\")"
}

But the data then looks empty:

"split_id": "1-0-0",
"event": "populate_variable",
"type": "trace",
"context": "node execution",
"host": "redacted",
"data": {
"name": "s_watermark",
"type": "string",
"data": ""
}


Any ideas what I am doing wrong, the file is there and with some text in. Am I missing some key step to have the txt file contents read and stored?

Thank you,

Neil

[emcodem]

Is there really a quote missing in this?

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$read("%recursed_path~1\watermark.txt)

[kimble]

Sorry, that's my mistake. I am using:

$read("%s_recursed_path~1%\watermark.txt")

[kimble]

My mistake, I forgot to pass the full path in, the recursed path didn't include the host/initialpath.