Reading every line in a file and returning it

Hello,

I am trying to make a program that opens a file, reads a line in the file, returns each line as a string, and then adds that string to a table. and returns every line as a seperate string, then saves those values to a table. I do not want to use file.readAll(), because i want each line stored as a seperate value on a table. Any help would be appreciated.

here is what i have so far on my current re-write of this program

--Declare Variable
local loc = "/UID"
--declare funtions
function readFile()
if fs.exists(loc) then
  local tFile = io.open(loc,"r")
  if tFile then
   for line in tFile:lines() do
	print(tFile.readLine())
   end
  end
end
end
--Run fucntions
readFile()

I really only need help figuring out how to read the file, the rest I can do myself.

Thanks,
~Matt

file = /VID
line = {}

function readAllLines()
if fs.exists(file) then
open = fs.open(file, "r")
num = 1
repeat
line[num] = open.readLine()
num = num + 1
until line[num] == ""
open.close()
end
end

I belive this works

or use the io api.

Having some problems with this.

line[num] = open.readLine()

Does not work. I have changed the loop to a "while" loop, but no matter how i code the loop, it always returns a "too long wihout yielding error". So I added a "sleep(0)" to the loop, and it fixed the yielding error, but it results in the program doing nothing

You can use :gmatch().

function readFile()
  local file = fs.open('your/file/path')
  local data = fs.readAll()
  file.close()
  
  local t = {}
  for v in data:gmatch('(.-)n') do
    table.insert(t,v)
  end
  return t
end

This returns a table of all of the lines.

I haven't had a chance to test this but in theory, it should work.

Spoiler

These code tags love to mess up my formatting :/ 

Instead of above see:
http://pastebin.com/r4mi76LY

You guys are really doing this the hard way.

local fileTable = {}
file = io.open("fileName", "r")
if file then
    for line in file:lines() do
        table.insert(fileTable, line)
    end
end