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cj1098
cj1098

Reputation: 1610

Lua reading in a file

So I'm trying to make my first lua program and I can't figure out why when I read in a file it returns that the file doesn't exist or isn't in the directory...here's my code.

io.input("myfile.txt")
word = io.read("*line")
print (word)

myfile.txt is in the same directory as the project....what could possibly be wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 571

Answers (1)

Norman Ramsey
Norman Ramsey

Reputation: 202505

I can't duplicate this problem:

: nr@homedog 10317 ; echo foo > myfile.txt 
: nr@homedog 10318 ; lua
Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> io.input("myfile.txt")
> word = io.read("*line")
> print (word)
foo
>

Upvotes: 1

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