[SOLVED] How do I import files from specific folder in the game directory?

[YounYokel]

Hello! It's quite weird for me, but when I'm setting the new font but I cannot import the font from a folder, I need to type the name only. If that file doesn't exists in the project folder, game will crash.

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local myFont = love.graphics.newFont( "fonts\opensans.ttf", 14 )

What should I do to allow the folders in my project?

[pgimeno]

Use / instead of \

[YounYokel]

Use / instead of \

Oops. That was silly

[HDPLocust]

You sould use [\\] (it's regular backslash character). Backslash is the escape character in lua strings:

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print("Backslash is here \\") --> Backslash is here \ 

Also multiline/unescaped strings can be achived with [[]] syntax:

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 print([[Backslash is here \]]) --> Backslash is here \ 

Backslash is used for some tasks, like using different types of quotes in string, or using special symbols:

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print("\33") --> !, 33-byte is "!" symbol
print("'singlequoted text' \"doublequoted text\"") -->'singlequoted text' "doublequoted text"

So it's just lua syntax.

[pgimeno]

It's not advisable to use \ for paths anyway if you want your code to run in multiple platforms.

[raidho36]

Also backslash will not work for zipped archives and by extension for fused games. In general you should just always use forward slash for file paths.

On a tangent, the "require" function doesn't work on file paths, it works on module names. So I recommend using dot notation there, just to avoid confusion.