love.filesystem.newFile

Creates a new File object. It needs to be opened before it can be accessed.

Function

Synopsis

file = love.filesystem.newFile( filename )

Arguments

string filename
The filename of the file. (Note that ':' may not occur in a filename.)

Returns

File file
The new File object.

Function

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0
This variant is not supported in earlier versions.

Creates a File object and opens it for reading, writing, or appending.

Synopsis

file, errorstr = love.filesystem.newFile( filename, mode )

Arguments

string filename
The filename of the file.
FileMode mode
The mode to open the file in.

Returns

File file
The new File object, or nil if an error occurred.
string errorstr
The error string if an error occurred.

Examples

Open a file and read everything

file = love.filesystem.newFile("data.txt")
file:open("r")
data = file:read()

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