Re: problem with lua io.lines

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 2013-08-14 um 21:00 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

>>    for ts in io.lines(string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-systems.count')) do
>>      syco = ts*1
>>    end
> 
> well, you probably were lucky before: string.gsub returns multiple values so io.lines get a second argument that limits the length of what gets returned

Thank you, didn't know that!

> local myfile = "myfile.txt"
> 
> for myline in io.lines(myfile,2) do
>    logs.report("test",myline)
> end
> 
> so you need:
> 
>  io.lines((string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-systems.count')))
> 
> or
> 
>  local name = string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-systems.count')
> 
>  io.lines(name)

Great, that works!

> or maybe better:
> 
>  io.lines(file.replacesuffix(name,'-systems.count'))


No, that doesn't work, because the dot stays, so I get foobar.-systems.count


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