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- Subject: Re: Read text file and iterate through items?
- From: Rob Hoelz <rob@...>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:18:08 -0500
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:11:26 +0200
Gilles Ganault <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
It's actually not; I was just mentioning string.gmatch for your future
reference.
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