# Utilities

*TOOLS/READFILE | Return Binary Data into Output String

## Invocation

CALL "*tools/readfile", filename$, outputfiledata$

Where:

filename$ | Name of the file to read.
outputfiledata$ | Output string where the file data is returned.

## Description

Read the entire binary contents of a file and return the data in the output string.

(The ReadFile utility was added in PxPlus 2021.)

## Example

In this example, the utility will read the file addresses.xml and output the contents of this file into addressxml$:

> call "*tools/readfile","addresses.xml",addressxml$