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readBytes

JVM
1.0
fun File . readBytes ( ) : ByteArray
(source)

Gets the entire content of this file as a byte array.

This method is not recommended on huge files. It has an internal limitation of 2 GB byte array size.

Return the entire content of this file as a byte array.

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