Opening a Text File?

I am having no luck opening a text file that contains comma delimited data. I have tried some different ways and am having no luck at all. I can't even get a open file dialog to appear when I click a button.
I did not see any example of this in the sdk sample plugins.
Anyone able to help me out.
The file I am trying to load is "D:\Test\TestFile.txt".

If you did not escape the path's backslashes that may be part of the problem.
Some example code:
local LrDialogs = import 'LrDialogs'
local LrFileUtils = import 'LrFileUtils'
local LrPathUtils = import 'LrPathUtils'
local file = 'C:\\temp\\Testfile1.txt'
if not LrFileUtils.isReadable(file) then
local dialogresult = LrDialogs.runOpenPanel {
title = 'Select input text file',
allowsMultipleSelection = false,
initialDirectory = LrPathUtils.parent(file)
file = dialogresult and dialogresult[1] or nil
end
if file and LrFileUtils.isReadable(file) then
local collectedLines = {}
for line in io.lines(file) do table.insert(collectedLines, line) end
LrDialogs.message(table.concat(collectedLines, '\n'))
end
Herb

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Waldemar
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