File

Represents a file on the filesystem.

Constructors

love.filesystem.newFile

Creates a new File object.

Functions

These functions have parentheses in odd places. This is because the File: namespace is reserved in Mediawiki.

(File):close	Closes a File.
(File):eof	If the end-of-file has been reached
(File):flush	Flushes any buffered written data in the file to disk.
(File):getBuffer	Gets the buffer mode of a file.
(File):getFilename	Gets the filename that the File object was created with.
(File):getMode	Gets the FileMode the file has been opened with.
(File):getSize	Returns the file size.
(File):isEOF	Gets whether end-of-file has been reached.
(File):isOpen	Gets whether the file is open.
(File):lines	Iterate over all the lines in a file.
(File):open	Open the file for write, read or append.
(File):read	Read a number of bytes from a file
(File):seek	Seek to a position in a file
(File):setBuffer	Sets the buffer mode for a file opened for writing or appending.
(File):tell	Returns the position in the file.
(File):write	Write data to a file.
Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.

Enums

BufferMode	Buffer modes for File objects.
FileMode	The different modes you can open a File in.

Supertypes

• Object

See Also

• love.filesystem

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