Read Certain File Areas?

I know that they have the fs.open("string", "read or write")

but is there a way to make it read only a certain part of the file?

Why would you need this? Reading the entire file seems pretty good to me.

If you mean say extracting a particular line then you could do something like this

local function readLine( path, lineNum )
  local handle = fs.open( path, "r" )
  local line
  for i = 1, lineNum do
	line = handle.readLine()
  end
  handle.close()
  return line
end

obviously this could be modified to ignore particular lines too. or you could modify it to read a subset of lines, but they would need to go into a table.

TheOriginalBIT, on 26 January 2013 - 03:12 PM said:

If you mean say extracting a particular line then you could do something like this

local function readLine( path, line )
  local handle = fs.open( path, "r" )
  local line
  for i = 1, line do
	line = handle.readLine()
  end
  handle.close()
  return line
end

obviously this could be modified to ignore particular lines too. or you could modify it to read a subset of lines, but they would need to go into a table.

Although I would probably use two unique variable names instead of line twice :P/>

crazyguymgd, on 26 January 2013 - 04:05 PM said:

Although I would probably use two unique variable names instead of line twice :P/>

Yeh probs, wrote this when I just woke up and forgot that I did that :P/>

Scope means it should work, but for readability its better to name them differently.

TheOriginalBIT, on 26 January 2013 - 04:07 PM said:

crazyguymgd, on 26 January 2013 - 04:05 PM said:

Although I would probably use two unique variable names instead of line twice :P/>

Yeh probs, wrote this when I just woke up and forgot that I did that :P/>

Scope means it should work, but for readability its better to name them differently.

Haha yeah I just wanted to say something since you pointed out my error in another topic :)/>

TheOriginalBIT, on 26 January 2013 - 04:07 PM said:

crazyguymgd, on 26 January 2013 - 04:05 PM said:

Although I would probably use two unique variable names instead of line twice :P/>/>

Yeh probs, wrote this when I just woke up and forgot that I did that :P/>/>

Scope means it should work, but for readability its better to name them differently.

Uh, no, the loop would throw an error. Amounts to for i = 1, nil do.