Re: file read problem

["Mark Meijer" <meijer78@...>]

Ah yes *doh*... Thanks all for your replies. I haven't been able to test it 
yet but I don't doubt that my problem is hereby solved. However obvious it 
was, it didn't occur to me before because lua generally doesn't tend to care 
about the contents of a string (such as \0, ^Z, LF/CR), nor perform any 
conversions. That is the mindset I'm in when programming in lua. Also at a 
glance, the manual entry for io.open didn't of course list the "rb" option 
explicitly, but now I do remember having read once that it takes all the 
same arguments as its C counterpart.

Sorry, and thanks :-)


> From: "Adam D. Moss" <adam@gimp.org>
> Reply-To: Lua list <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
> To: Lua list <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
> Subject: Re: file read problem
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:19:14 +0000
>
> Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> > > Try "rb" and "wb" as the 2-nd parameter to io.open().
> >
> >
> > Yes, that's that. I tested this code on a Unix-style file (the Lua manual) 
> > and since I ran it on Windows, I actually got a bigger file: LFs were 
> > transformed to CR+LFs.
> >
> > Binary files were indeed truncated. Probably on first \0 found... Adding b 
> > is the way to go with binary files or if you want to preserve original 
> > EOL.
>
> IIRC, ^Z was treated as an EOF marker on 'DOS text' files.
>
> Regards,
> --Adam