Re: File output

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

do:

output:write(string.char(0))

-j

On Fri, 28 May 2004 17:54:52 +0200, Maxime Petazzoni
<maxime.petazzoni@bulix.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently programming a little script that need to do byte output to
> a file, but it's not really doing what I want :)
> 
> I need to output specific decimal values, such as 0, but I did not find
> out how to it. In fact :
> 
> outfile = io.open(filename, "r+b")
> outfile:write(0)
> 
> outputs the character zero, but not a real zero :
> 
> [pts/6] -lua/hills skikda% hexdump -C out
> 00000000  30                                                |0|
> 00000001
> 
> I also tried with string.format :
> 
> outfile:write(string.format("%d", 0))
> 
> but it's doing exactly the same.
> 
> Do you know how I can do this ?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Sam
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