Load text as a variable

[pdxSherpa]

I am able to load text into a div created dynamically w/jquery.
However. I’d like to create a variable loading the same file,

var text = .load("content/textContent.txt"); //not working of course, why i am here.

Then extract the numbers of paragraphs from it, so i can use the numbers in a for loop. for example, was thinking

for (i=0; i<text.p.lenght; i++0);

Of course so far am having some difficulty w/this. Could i get some advice please?
thx
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[fretburner]

You want to use jQuery’s $.get() method to fetch the file, and the contents will be passed to the success callback function as the first argument.