Difference between revisions of "Talk:IO (API)"
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| + | * First off, you need to be more specific as to what you want the code to do. I'm going to assume that you want to write the contents of f to the screen. Based on what I understand from the Lua 5.2 Ref Man, I believe io.output(f) needs to be io.output(f):write(), rather than have them seperate. Regardless of that, I do know for sure you need to read in the contents of your file. (ie. local fdata = f:read(), then you need to io.write/print your fdata) | ||
Revision as of 19:08, 29 September 2012
What features are trimmed down?
it's kinda useless to say that features are trimmed down, if there's no list. Graypup 01:57, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
Why this code leads to error?
local f=io.open("testfile","w")
io.output(f) --Error "attempt to call nil" - Why? f contains data (table:7a86c)--
io.write(...)
f:close()
- First off, you need to be more specific as to what you want the code to do. I'm going to assume that you want to write the contents of f to the screen. Based on what I understand from the Lua 5.2 Ref Man, I believe io.output(f) needs to be io.output(f):write(), rather than have them seperate. Regardless of that, I do know for sure you need to read in the contents of your file. (ie. local fdata = f:read(), then you need to io.write/print your fdata)
