# 177. Read a file into a string with unformatted stream.
topic: {ref}`input-and-output`
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An entire file can be read into a string by
(1) using INQUIRE to get the file size
(2) allocating a string to this size
(3) reading the string using unformatted stream
The string can then be broken into lines by searching for newline characters.
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