Doubt regarding Node js intro

#1

WHy does a undefined at line 9 but if we do the sam operation inside the readFile call back function , it prints value ?

#2

https://pasteboard.co/J6vIcwQ.png This is the image

#3

This is due to the fact that readfile is an aynchronus function and doesnt give the data right away
If you give a set timeout to the vairable a outside the block it will not give undefined
As the console.log of a is executed before the data is fetched from file and stored in the variable a

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