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Posted 29 September 2014 - 11:32 PM
I've been trying to create a program that writes a table of strings to a file, but I can't figure out how to make it start a new line.
Here is the code:
function new(data,page)
f = io.open(page,"w")
for _,line in ipairs(data) do
f:write(line,"\n")
end
f:close(page)
end
Here is the line that calls the code:
new({"Hello World!,"Lua is cool"},"test")
Here is the file:
Hello World!Lua is cool
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Posted 29 September 2014 - 11:45 PM
I've never used io, I stick to fs, however I'm not sure why you are writing multiple times anyway.
local formatted = table.concat( data, "\n" )
f:write( formatted )
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Posted 30 September 2014 - 12:01 AM
I think notepad uses a different new line format because when I open the file with notepad it's all on one line, but when I open it with notepad++ or wordpad the lines are separate.
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Posted 30 September 2014 - 12:11 AM
Yes, notepad uses a return ( "\r" ) for it's new lines. Use "\r\n" if you want to fix that.
Article (about java, but same problem):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5557978/notepad-not-recognizing-new-line-characters-in-java-code-using-printstream-to-ou
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Posted 30 September 2014 - 05:07 AM
If you use
fs.open() to get your file handles, they'll have access to a writeLine() function (in addition to write()) which automatically handles the line breaks for you.