Reading the lines from a file

I am trying to iterate through all the lines in a file and return a table containing the text from each line, in order.

function getNotes()
  local f = fs.open("example", "r")
  local end_reached = false
  local notes = {}
  while not end_reached do
	local current_note = f.readline()
	if current_note ~= nil then
	  notes.insert(current_note)
	else
	  end_reached = true
	end
  end
  f.close()
  return notes
end

print(textutils.serialize(getNotes()))

However, this gives an attempt to call nil error on line 6, and I see nothing wrong with doing f.readline(). Please tell me if there is a proper way to read all the lines of a file.

the error is at notes.insert. It should either be notes:insert(…) or table.insert(notes, …)

and it's called readLine, not readline

Cannot believe I forgot that. Thank you!

no problem ;)/>

For what it's worth, io.lines() makes things a bit easier:

local function getNotes()
  local notes = {}
  for current_note in io.lines("exampleFile") do
        table.insert(notes, current_note)
  end
  return notes
end

Bomb Bloke, on 03 June 2015 - 01:35 AM said:

For what it's worth, io.lines() makes things a bit easier:

local function getNotes()
  local notes = {}
  for current_note in io.lines("exampleFile") do
		table.insert(notes, current_note)
  end
  return notes
end

nice catch +1