Is reading a file possible?

[talenramel]

After searching and reading and questing to find the answer to this question, I remain ignorant, and so I ask:

Is it possible to read data from a file in the UI?

As in, a random file held in the eq2 folder (or any subfold as necessary). I'd like to parse the /log data and get mob hp's and have these displayable in the target window. It was my thought to just stick it all in a file and read the data from there. Possibly it might need to be in a .xml UI file or something?

I'm shooting in the dark. All the coding I've encountered with other MMO's has been script-based and the difference between those and EQ2 is throwing me something fierce.