Typewriter look from a text file

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I'm a really new Javascript person who for the first time is trying to write (rather than copy) code for a page. Simply put, I wish to read a text file then display the characters one at a time in a div already created. The 'get' corks fine and the data variable receives the string, however, I get a 'Line 1' input past error from the browser when this executes. Probably 10 things wrong with how I am going about it, but any direction welcome.

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<div id='textelement' style="width:400px; height:200px ;overflow:auto"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$.get("Comments.txt", function (data) 
{
    var displaytxt = "";
    displaytxt = data;
    function nextchar () 
        {
        if (displaytxt.length > 0) 
            {
            $('#textelement').append(displaytxt.substr(0, 1));
            displaytxt = displaytxt.substr(1);
            setTimeout(nextchar, 70);
            }
        }
    }
</script>

asked 28 secs ago

user1832739

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Typewriter look from a text file