interacting with txt files?

[Evil_Bartek]

Is there a way to read a txt file? Like getting the contents of it and putting it into a string?

[IMP1]

love.filesystem seems to be what you're looking for. Particularly http://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.read ?

[Ellohir]

This may not be the proper way to do it but I find it very easy to use:

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mapstring = love.filesystem.load("map1.lua")() -- the last parenthesis execute the code

and on "map1.lua", in the working directory:

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return { "0011000\n0000001\n0010011"  }

[Jasoco]

Both are correct. The former will load a text file in as lines. The latter executes it as if it's code. Using the return in the loaded file will return it through the load function.