Re: Function read_line in liolib.c

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@...>]

Robert Raschke wrote:
> On 4/11/08, Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> > When reading lines from a binary file, functions io.lines(...)
> > and file:read("*l") can read multiple lines at once and produce
> > strings that are not contained in the file.
>
> Maybe the documentation needs to state that lines(), read("*n"), and
> read("*l") work on text files, not binary? 

And then only for text files that use the current platform's line
ending convention.

Best wishes,
Taco