File
Represents a file on the filesystem. A function that takes a file path can also take a File.
Constructors
| love.filesystem.newFile | Creates a new File object. |
Functions
These functions have parentheses in odd places. This is because the File: namespace is reserved in Mediawiki.
| (File):close | Closes a File. | ||
| (File):eof | If the end-of-file has been reached | 0.10.0 | |
| (File):flush | Flushes any buffered written data in the file to disk. | 0.9.0 | |
| (File):getBuffer | Gets the buffer mode of a file. | 0.9.0 | |
| (File):getFilename | Gets the filename that the File object was created with. | 0.10.0 | |
| (File):getMode | Gets the FileMode the file has been opened with. | 0.9.0 | |
| (File):getSize | Returns the file size. | ||
| (File):isEOF | Gets whether end-of-file has been reached. | 0.10.0 | |
| (File):isOpen | Gets whether the file is open. | 0.9.0 | |
| (File):lines | Iterate over all the lines in a file. | ||
| (File):open | Open the file for write, read or append. | ||
| (File):read | Read a number of bytes from a file | ||
| (File):seek | Seek to a position in a file | ||
| (File):setBuffer | Sets the buffer mode for a file opened for writing or appending. | 0.9.0 | |
| (File):tell | Returns the position in the file | ||
| (File):write | Write data to a file. | ||
| Object:type | Gets the type of the object as a string. | ||
| Object:typeOf | Checks whether an object is of a certain type. |
Enums
| BufferMode | Buffer modes for File objects. | 0.9.0 | |
| FileMode | The different modes you can open a File in. |
Supertypes
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