Re: Read text file and iterate through items?

[Gilles Ganault <gilles.ganault@...>]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:07:56 -0500, Rob Hoelz <rob@hoelz.ro> wrote:
>Also, you're using the for loop wrong.  For iterating over each line in
>a string, you'd probably use string.gmatch; for a table, try ipairs or
>pairs.

Thanks but why is it better to use string.gmatch() instead of
io.lines()? In this case, there's only one item per line.