How to get the pointer to a file ?

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How to get the pointer to a file ?

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Sup
The title is pretty self explanatory.

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file = love.filesystem.newFile("In love with love2d.txt")
-- How the get the pointer ?
Using LOVE to make everything except games :crazy:

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astring = "pog"
print(astring)
--pog
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Re: How to get the pointer to a file ?

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Is it self explanatory, though?

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file
is your variable that you can use with functions like open or close...

https://love2d.org/wiki/File

And if by pointer you mean position, then:
https://love2d.org/wiki/(File):seek
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Re: How to get the pointer to a file ?

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Nwm figured it out thanks for the help though.
Using LOVE to make everything except games :crazy:

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astring = "pog"
print(astring)
--pog
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