Ah, I knew I must have been missing something, thanks!
File:read should work pretty much exactly how I wanted, as I planned on eventually reading a couple bytes at a time, with one byte reserved for flags and whatnot.
Thanks again!

Hi everyone. I'm new to LOVE and am really liking it so far, but I'm trying to figure out text file input, which seems a bit different in LUA/LOVE than the languages I'm used to, like C++ and Gamemaker. I'm planning on using text files as input and output for tiles/maps in my game. The text files wi...