storing .txt file in an array..

[gopal.master]

hi all !
i have made a program to read a text file from a specified location , and i want to store it an array .. i don't know how to do this...please help me..

here is my code for reading a file..

LIBRARY ieee;
USE ieee.std_logic_1164.ALL;
use STD.textio.all; 

ENTITY read_file IS
END read_file;

ARCHITECTURE beha OF read_file IS

    signal  bin_value : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0):="0000";
   
BEGIN
   
   --Read process
    process
      file file_pointer : text;
        variable line_content : string(1 to 4);
      variable line_num : line;
        variable j : integer := 0;
        variable char : character:='0';
   begin
        ----------Open the file read.txt from the specified location for reading(READ_MODE).
      file_open(file_pointer,"C:\read.txt",READ_MODE);   
      while not endfile(file_pointer) loop ------------till the end of file is reached continue.
      readline (file_pointer,line_num);  --------------------Read the whole line from the file
        ----------------------Read the contents of the line from  the file into a variable.
      READ (line_num,line_content);
        ------------------------For each character in the line convert it to binary value.
       ---------------------------------- --And then store it in a signal named 'bin_value'.
        for j in 1 to 4 loop       
            char := line_content(j);
            if(char = '0') then
                bin_value(4-j) <= '0';
            else
                bin_value(4-j) <= '1';
            end if;
        end loop;  
        wait for 10 ns; --------------------------------after reading each line wait for 10ns.
      end loop;
      file_close(file_pointer);  ------------------------after reading all the lines close the file. 
        wait;
    end process;

end beha;