# Add textfile to the log
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-textfile-to-the-log/711
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [January 11, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-textfile-to-the-log/711 "2008-01-11T09:51:46Z")
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-textfile-to-the-log/711/1 "2008-01-11T09:51:46Z")
Is it possible to find the newest textfile in a directory and then dump that to the FB log?
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-textfile-to-the-log/711/2 "2008-01-14T12:26:22Z")
Hi Roland,
Some of that is easy, and some is more difficult. The hard bit is to find the newest text file - for this you’ll have to write some VBScript or JScript, and then set a variable with the name of the file. Then, to read the text file use the “Read Text File” action (putting the contents into a variable, eg. %MyFileContents%), and then in the AfterAction script of that action, just send the contents of that variable to the log, eg. Action.SendLogMessage(MyFileContents) - note that in script you don’t enclose variables with %'s.
hth.
.t8
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-textfile-to-the-log/711/3 "2008-01-14T07:06:52Z")
Ok, thanks for the answer. I will try that.
/Roland