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i would want to write/read string to a file
could someone give me a simple example, that just saves a string
and another example that read, and also to just line
thx
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i would want to write/read string to a file
could someone give me a simple example, that just saves a string
and another example that read, and also to just line
thx
Hope you find it somewhat useful. Remember, The save is in your lua folder.
next line?
thx
edited 1×, last 27.02.11 03:37:41 pm
Like this.
http://www.evilmana.com/tutorials/lua_tutorial_09.php
Reading all file lines from file stream would be...
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for line in f:lines() do file.lines[i] = line i = i + 1 end
edited 3×, last 27.02.11 04:09:56 pm
edit:
also if i wanna overwrite a line with a variable, what do i do cause when i try file:write("\n") then it just overwrite everything, is there anything that allows me to skip line without overwriting it?
edited 2×, last 28.02.11 12:36:52 pm
"w+" deletes everything in a file before attempting to write to it. These are more useful, I hope.
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path = saves -- The directory where you will place the save.
file_save = {0 = [path/text document.txt]}
function save()
file:write(file_save[0],"w+")
end
Here's a tutorial for y'all.
SaveTableToFile
Yasday has written
io.write(player(id,"health").."\n\n\n\n\n")
You don't need to concatenate when writing to a file.
Instead you should pass it as different parameters to save yourself from doing needless concatenations.
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also if i wanna overwrite a line with a variable
Ohh, it's very simple, you just have to rewrite the whole file instead of the part you want to edit
It's not possible to write to a part of a file (that's why we got databases, but not in lua)
and how long to write 1000 lines from array using w mode in a loop?
At this point, seeing as how you are using a very inefficient serialization method to begin with, I really doubt that the rumtime complexity of IO is something that you have to worry about.
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