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The start of an ascii file contains

40<cr><lf>
astring<cr><lf>
...

Assuming f is an open file

print(f:read("*n")  40
print(f:read("*l")  nothing

On investigation

print(f:read("*n")  40
print(f:read("*n")  nil
print(f:read("*l")  astring

What is going on?