activex - Reading a txt file from Javascript

Question

am trying to read few lines from a txt file using JS,and i have this code but its not working for some reason,,

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); 

var s = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\wamp\www\22.txt", 1, true);

var row = s.ReadLine();


alert(row);

any suggestions?!

Answer 1

Make sure your browser has the right permissions to perform that kind of operation. Usually, browsers won't allow direct file system access by default.