### readFileLines Returns an array of lines from the specified file. Use `readFileSync` function in `fs` node package to create a `Buffer` from a file. convert buffer to string using `toString(encoding)` function. creating an array from contents of file by `split`ing file content line by line (each `\n`). ```js const fs = require('fs'); const readFileLines = filename => fs.readFileSync(filename).toString('UTF8').split('\n'); ``` ```js contents of test.txt : line1 line2 line3 ___________________________ let arr = readFileLines('test.txt') console.log(arr) // // ['line1', 'line2', 'line3'] ```