Layer Source Text linking to external text. (no code in doc!)

Question

I've seen linking to text documents with code snippets in it.
So that means the external text document must contain bits of scripting.
I would like to link to txt documents (or csv) that do not contain code.
Total noob users must be able to link a text to a After Effects project.
I have a website data catcher which exports CSV values.
It would be ideal if After Effects can hoover up the text and put certain pieces into certain source texts.
We're talking automated sports cards here.
Is this possible without adding code to a text dump?
Or is this just impossible?

Answer 1

The basic idea is to use something like this:
myPath = "/c/test/txt.txt";
$.evalFile (myPath);
The text file does need to contain legal JavaScript code, but it could be as simple as this for a text layer:
"this is a test"
You generally want to wrap the $.evalFile() in a try/catch so that you can have an error string like "Not found." display if your path is bad, like this:
myPath = "/c/badpath/txt.txt";
try{
  $.evalFile (myPath);
}catch(err){
  "Not found."
Dan