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How to get the Path of a File

MillerszoneMillerszone Member
edited September 2011 in General questions
In corona I used this to find get the file path:
local path = system.pathForFile( "data.txt", system.DocumentsDirectory )

Tried this, but no go.
local path = io.open("|D|date.txt", "rt")

Comments

  • atilimatilim Maintainer
    edited September 2011
    You're on the right way :)

    In corona, to open and read contents of a file in documents directory, you use:
    local path = system.pathForFile( "data.txt", system.DocumentsDirectory ) 
    local f = io.open(path, "rt")
    local t = f:read("*all")
    f:close()
    In Gideros, we don't allow users to get the directory paths. Because, in the future, we plan to port Gideros to different platforms which doesn't even have a file system. Therefore, to open a file on the documents directory, simply use "|D|data.txt" as the filename:
    local f = io.open("|D|data.txt", "rt")
    local t = f:read("*all")
    f:close()
  • atilimatilim Maintainer
    edited September 2011
    btw, I hope you like the new forum :)

    To highlight your Lua code, you can try

    <pre lang="lua">
    print("hello")
    </pre>

    which results
    print("hello")
    Also there are different highlighters available such ac "objc" or "xml" besides "lua".

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  • btw, I hope you like the new forum :)

    To highlight your Lua code, you can try

    <pre lang="lua">
    print("hello")
    </pre>

    which results
    print("hello")
    Also there are different highlighters available such ac "objc" or "xml" besides "lua".
    New forum looks good and easy to use like Gideros.
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