Help with filesystem?

[natev]

I know this is dumb, but...

How can I most simply create a text file if it doesn't exist, then append a line of text, then close it?

I'm trying to create simple output to a textfile (for debugging purposes, mostly). I would like to have something like,

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i, emergencyBrake = 0, 10^10
while table.continue do
     i = i +1
     ...
     if i==emergencyBrake then debug:log("logfile.txt", "Loop went on too long, table contains "..debug:dump(table)); break end
end

Lua io.write() isn't creating a new file (like I've read it is supposed to?). love.filesystem.newFile() isn't creating a file anywhere (although love.filesystem.createDirectory() is creating a directory in my user folder), and, in any case, it looks like the love filesystem is tuned for streams and such rather than what I want to do (data:new()?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[s-ol]

love.filesystem.write automatically creates a file if needed:

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local str = "blergh blergh blergh"
if love.filesystem.isFile( "sometime.txt" ) then
 str = love.filesystem.read( "sometime.txt" ) .." \n".. str
end
love.filesystem.write( "somefile.txt",  str ) 

[natev]

Thank you very much, that's working great!

[Robin]

That is really bad, especially if you write often and if the file grows large.

Use [wiki]love.graphics.append[/wiki]("logfile.txt", "This is a line in the log") instead.

[kikito]

That is really bad, especially if you write often and if the file grows large.

Use [wiki]love.graphics.append[/wiki]("logfile.txt", "This is a line in the log") instead.

Robin clearly meant filesystem instead of graphics there:

[wiki]love.filesystem.append[/wiki]("logfile.txt", "This is a line in the log")

[Azhukar]

Robin clearly meant filesystem instead of graphics there

I must admit that was pretty funny.

[Robin]

What. Kikito is right. That's one weird brain fart.

[Doctory]

What. Kikito is right. That's one weird brain fart.

this happens way too often to me

[bartbes]

For some reason, every time I attribute a function to the wrong module, it's always to love.graphics. I guess it's just the module I type the name of most often.

[undef]

It's also a common typo for me to write love.graphics.
That, and loval instead of local...