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Hi all,
Thanks for accepting me!
When I'm reading a long text file with LUA, Can I use pagination for splitting output?

Here the code:

function file_exists(file)
  local f = io.open(file, "rb")
  if f then f:close() end
  return f ~= nil
end

function lines_from(file)
  if not file_exists(file) then return {} end
  lines = {}
  for line in io.lines(file) do 
    lines[#lines + 1] = line
  end
  return lines
end

local file = 'test.lua'
local lines = lines_from(file)

for k,v in pairs(lines) do
  print('line[' .. k .. ']', v)
end

I mean...like Linux command:
$ cat filename | more

Thanks for all