Converting text in a file

Okay, getting bored is apparently very unhealthy for me.

Anyway, what I'm trying to do is that I have a file with just random words, one per line.

potato
carrot
tomato
--#And so on

And I want to quote every word and add a comma afterwards.

So far I have this code:
(Yes this is by far not enough)

function convert()
  local file = fs.open("conversion.txt", "r");
  local finalconversion = fs.open("converted.txt","w")
  local arr = {}
  for line in io.lines(file) do
	 finalconversion.writeLine(' "'..line..'", ')
	 print('"'..line..'", ')
  end
  file.close()
  finalconversion.close()
end
convert()

Got it working.

function convert()
  local file = io.open("convert.txt", "r");
  local f = io.open("converted.txt","w")
  local arr = {}
  for line in file:lines(file) do
	 f:write('"'..line..'", \n')
	 print('"'..line..'", \n')
	 sleep(0.05)
  end
  file:close()
  f:close()
end
convert()

You forgot to mention your problem, but other than the bit where you call io.lines() with a table instead of a string, that code looks more or less acceptable to me.

local function convert()
  local finalconversion = fs.open("converted.txt","w")
  for line in io.lines("conversion.txt") do
         finalconversion.writeLine("\""..line.."\", ")
         print("\""..line.."\", ")
  end
  finalconversion.close()
end

convert()

If you're still having issues, remember to elaborate on what they are.

He's not calling io.lines, he's calling handle:lines() on a handle opened with io.open. The handle:lines() call does not require an argument, though.

Lyqyd, on 13 July 2016 - 01:29 AM said:

He's not calling io.lines, he's calling handle:lines() on a handle opened with io.open. The handle:lines() call does not require an argument, though.

He is calling io.lines() in the first post.

In his second post, yes - I got ninja'd by that one.

Thank you all for the responses :)/> I did get it to work flawlessly