io.tmpfile
Returns a handle to a temporary file
Prototype
f = io.tmpfile ()Description
Returns a handle to a temporary file, opened in update mode. Automatically removed when the program ends.
f = assert (io.tmpfile ()) -- open temporary file
f:write ("some data here") -- write to it
f:seek ("set", 0) -- back to start
s = f:read ("*a") -- read all of it back in
print (s) -- print out
f:close () -- close file
-->
some data here
-
nil
An error message (string)
An error code (number)
Lua functions
- f:close - Closes a file
- f:flush - Flushes outstanding data to disk
- f:lines - Returns an iterator function for reading the file line-by-line
- f:read - Reads the file according to the specified formats
- f:seek - Sets and gets the current file position
- f:setvbuf - Sets the buffering mode for an output file
- f:write - Writes to a file
- io.close - Closes a file
- io.flush - Flushes outstanding data to disk for the default output file
- io.input - Opens filename for input in text mode
- io.lines - Returns an iterator function for reading a named file line-by-line
- io.open - Opens a file
- io.output - Opens a file for output
- io.popen - Creates a pipe and executes a command
- io.read - Reads from the default input file
- io.stderr - File handle for standard error file
- io.stdin - File handle for standard input file
- io.stdout - File handle for standard output file
- io.type - Returns type of file handle
- io.write - Writes to the default output file
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