Read and modify text from file

[Lazaroth]

How do you read the text from a file in a javascript and then make it put a <br> after every "."?

I.e.

<script>

var thetext = the_text_from_the_file.txt

// add a <br> after every "." in the file

//and then

document.write(thetext);

</script>

[beetle]

Inserting a <br> after every period is easy -- reading a text files is something you cannot do w/o ActiveX -- and even then it will only read from the client machine.

If this is for the web -- you'll need something besides javascript.