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string to variable?

Started by gergo654, 04 August 2016 - 01:36 PM

gergo654 #1

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Posted 04 August 2016 - 03:36 PM

i dont know how to describe this but i have an example file that has this in it:
hello
hi
bye
and I want to read it as separate variables like so
1 = "hello"
2 = "hi"
3 = "bye"
for example
because a,b,c = file.readAll() does not work like that :I
is that possible?
Thank you <3 :)/>

valithor #2

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Posted 04 August 2016 - 04:23 PM


h=fs.open(file,"r")
a=h.readLine()
b=h.readLine()
c=h.readLine()
h.close()

Edited on 04 August 2016 - 02:24 PM

gergo654 #3

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Posted 04 August 2016 - 04:30 PM

Thank you

Bomb Bloke #4

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Posted 05 August 2016 - 02:39 AM

Or, using a table and io.lines():

local lines = {}

for line in io.lines(file) do
  lines[#lines + 1] = line
end