Reading and writing

[Delibrete]

How would one go about reading and writing to text files with love?

[Roland_Yonaba]

In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.

[Delibrete]

In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.

I see the functions are there, but I don't know how to use them. How would I use those functions?

[trubblegum]

In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.

I see the functions are there, but I don't know how to use them. How would I use those functions?

Is it really more work to click a link than it is to write a forum post asking someone else to do it for you?
If your attention span is so short that you didn't get as far as the example code at the top of the page in the docs, then programming is not for you.

[Delibrete]

In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.

I see the functions are there, but I don't know how to use them. How would I use those functions?

Is it really more work to click a link than it is to write a forum post asking someone else to do it for you?
If your attention span is so short that you didn't get as far as the example code at the top of the page in the docs, then programming is not for you.

Well I've been trying for a few days now to read and write to text files, but it's ok now I've figured it out. But you're right, programming is probably not for me.

[trubblegum]

No worries .. some people are programmers, others are designers, and yet others are taxidermists.
But Rome wasn't built in a day, so don't give up just yet

[Delibrete]

No worries .. some people are programmers, others are designers, and yet others are taxidermists.
But Rome wasn't built in a day, so don't give up just yet

I've been trying for years to become a programmer and a designer, hopefully I'll get there eventually. Thanks man

[sanjiv]

Help. In the following code, I'm trying to write 'hello text file!' to text.txt at the root of my game folder (same level as main.lua). Basically, I want to run the LOVE game, press a key, and have something written to a file.

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function love.load()

   text= love.filesystem.newFile( 'text.txt' )

end

function love.keypressed(key,unicode)

   if key == "space" then
	txt:open('w')
	txt:write("hello text file!")
   end

end

1) How do I get this to work?
2) What if I want to write to text.lua instead of text.txt?
3) What about navigating into folders within the game folder?

[Zeliarden]

Hi!

1.

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   if key == "space" then

should be

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   if key == " " then

and

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   txt:open('w')
   txt:write("hello text file!") 

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   text:open('w')
   text:write("hello text file!")

as you used text (not txt) as variable name at love.load()

2.
change 'text.txt' to 'text.lua'

3.
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem
love.filesystem can only read/write to that special directory. If you want to save at an other dir you have to use
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-io.close
but I would not recommend it

[Nixola]

Why should text.txt become text.lua?