Returns

string The contents of the text asset as a read-only string.

Description

Returns the contents of the TextAsset as a read-only string.

Encodings are detected and interpreted automatically. Supported encodings are:

• UTF-32 big-endian or little-endian with a byte order mark.
• UTF-16 big-endian or little-endian with a byte order mark.
• UTF-8 with a byte order mark.
• UTF-8 without a byte order mark. This encoding is used as a fallback, if the above encodings can't decode the file without missing characters.

To use a specific encoding to decode a file, use TextAsset.bytes and C# encoding classes.

using UnityEngine;

public class ToStringExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Drag a .txt file onto this field and its contents log as a string.
    public TextAsset textFile;

    void Start()
    {
        Debug.Log("Text file converted to string: " + textFile.ToString());
    }
}

Additional resources: bytes, GetData, Text Assets.