Placing a text file into Illustrator

Hi everyone

So I found out how to place an image into illustrator via scripting with javascript, however I am having difficulties with text files. My code is:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var Layer1 = myDoc.layers[0];

function getTextFile() {

    return File.openDialog('Please select the text file to be imported:', undefined, undefined);

}

var myTextfile = getTextFile();

var myPlacedFile = Layer1.placedItems.add();

myPlacedFile.file = myTextfile;

But when I select a text file, it says it is an unsupported format. I'm assuming it has something to do with the extra options that come with importing a text document, specific for .txt and .doc for example. Has anyone had any success with this?

For what it's worth I was working on an alternate method by read() ing in the contents of the .txt file and setting them equal to the contents of a textFrame, however it imported the text without carriage returns/newlines and I haven't been able to result that issue.

Any assistance on the matter would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks. Sean