How to store file text into array

[soytak111]

I tried a mutliple of way to do it
My goal is to read a file and store line1 in a array at index 1,line2 at index 2 ect...

[darkfrei]

I tried a mutliple of way to do it
My goal is to read a file and store line1 in a array at index 1,line2 at index 2 ect...

Looks like https://stackoverflow.com/a/11204889

Use the iterator to iterate each line in file:

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for line in io.lines(file) do 
  table.insert (lines, line)
end

[glitchapp]

hi, just in case it helps have a look at the function I created for this purpose, it simulates the <br> label of html to separate lines, feel free to use it or tweak it to your needs: https://codeberg.org/glitchapp/fish-fil ... /About.lua

[soytak111]

Ok it work but it doesn't seem to left \n
So my question now is...
Exemple:

for line in love.filesystem.lines( "test/wow.txt" ) do table.insert (data, line) end

For i=1,#data[1]+1 do
If string.sub(data[1],i,i) == ? Then
Some code
End
End

...How would i detect when i is out of the string
In other words,what should I put at the ? So the condition is true when it access out of the string

[Xugro]

In other words,what should I put at the ? So the condition is true when it access out of the string

You need to put the following where the ? is:

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""

But why would you want to do that? You know that you are at the end of the string when

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i == #data[1]

and you are "beyond" the string if

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i == #data[1]+1

There is no need to use

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string.sub(data[1],i,i) == ?

to check for this case.

If you want to keep the newline character \n at the end of each line then you can just add it before storing the line in the array:

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for line in io.lines(file) do 
  table.insert (lines, line .. "\n")
end