Re: io.read seems not right on windws, why?

[Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>]

Am 07.03.2017 um 10:36 schrieb R.wen:
> hi,
>    I just test the simple code as follow,
>
> local f = io.open("lua53.dll")
> print(f:seek("end"))
> print(f:seek("set"))
> local str = f:read("a")
> print(#str)
>
> it is output is:
>
> 230400
> 0
> 201
>
> it only read out 201 bytes, but the file size is 230400, what is wrong 
> here?
>
>
> thanks,
> rwen
You may have come along a ^Z (code 26), which is the DOS (and Windows) 
EOF code in non-binary file access.
Try again with io.open( "lua53.dll", "rb")

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Oliver