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Reading a text file in corona is very eazy.First get the file path and using the file path read the content in the file. Check the code below. display.setStatusBar( display.HiddenStatusBar ) -- read the file path local filePath = system.pathForFile( "myFile.txt", system.ResourceDirectory ) local file = io.open( filePath, "r" ) if file then -- read all contents of file into a string local contents = file:read( "*a" ) print( "The file path is" .. filePath ) print( contents ) io.close( file ) end Copy and download the code and try your self.