X file:lines

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: file

Description

Returns an iterator function that, each time it is called, returns a new line from the file. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (function) = file:lines() </source>

Unlike io.lines, this function does not close the file when the loop ends.

Return values

Returns (function) iterator function

Example

To iterate over all lines of a file <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> for line in file:lines() do --body end </source>

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• file

• X file:close
• X file:flush
• X file:lines
• X file:read
• X file:seek
• X file:write

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