Re: file read problem

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Mark Meijer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some reason, reading in an entire file, for example with simple test 
> code like this, doesn't appear read the whole file:
>
> local file = io.open("infile", "r");
> if(file) then
>   local data = file:read("*a"); -- i've also tried "*all" as described 
> in PIL
>   file:close();
>   file = io.open("outfile", "w");
>   if(file) then
>      file:write(data);
>      file:close();
>   end
> end

Try "rb" and "wb" as the 2-nd parameter to io.open().

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Shmuel