[flexcoders] is there a way to open a file in flex app'

[ziksable]

hi guys, 
i'm pretty new to flex. 
is there a way in flex 2 (action script 3) to perform the following
action: let user (client) to choose the file on his local comp' and
display its contents on the screen. 

i've looked on FileReference class. but it seems the class allows just
to upload the file to the server and not to look on the file stream. 

Thanks, 
:)