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➜ File IO, Syntax for network file path access
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File IO, Syntax for network file path access
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| Posted by
| Fletchling
Australia (54 posts) Bio
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| Sat 02 Dec 2006 09:49 PM (UTC) |
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| Using various IO functions, I'd like to access a file stored on a network drive.
Currently, I have a file called (for instance) sw.txt in the default folder MC accesses for logs and so on. This works well, but is only local.
using something like;
***script lines***
for line in io.lines ("sw.txt") do
print (line)
***more script lines***
The file(s) in question may be stored on a server called "aardsp" in a folder called "texthelps", so the path is \\aardsp\texthelps\sw.txt. I've tried a number of combinations but I can't get the IO function to get the file from anywhere other than the local file, ideas very much appreciated.
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Sat 02 Dec 2006 10:53 PM (UTC) |
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| Lua's IO probably doesn't support opening network paths.
Try mapping a network drive so that you can get a proper drive-based path. Then Lua will probably be happier with it. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Fletchling
Australia (54 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 12:14 AM (UTC) |
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| Sure mapping the drive will help, but I still can't explicitly direct mush to consistently grab a file from any directory other than that currently the default.. even somewhere on local c:\...somewhere.
I should have been clearer in the original question... | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 12:58 AM (UTC) |
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| Oh, so you can't get any other path?
Are you properly escaping your backslashes? Something like \t means a literal tab; if you want to say, e.g., c:\tmp you have to write c:\\tmp. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Fletchling
Australia (54 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 01:48 AM (UTC) |
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| Assuming a file at C:\text\sw.txt
using io function (first line only here);
for line in io.lines ("C:\\text\\sw.txt") do
gives this error;
[string "Alias: "]:1: bad argument #1 to 'lines' (C: extsw.txt: Invalid argument)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'lines'
[string "Alias: "]:1: in main chunk
I'm missing something obvious I'm sure, appreciate your help again. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 01:54 AM (UTC) Amended on Sun 03 Dec 2006 02:18 AM (UTC) by David Haley
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| for line in io.lines("c:\\tmp\\delete_me\\phil-151-defs.txt") do
print(line)
end
That worked for me, but outside of MUSHclient.
You can also try double-escaping, because MUSHclient might be processing one level of escaping. Try \\\\ instead of just \\.
EDIT: added double escaping. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Fletchling
Australia (54 posts) Bio
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| Reply #6 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 02:09 AM (UTC) |
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| Note in the previous post, I'd used \\ instead of \.
**stumped for now** | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #7 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 02:18 AM (UTC) |
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| | Oops. Looks like the forum escaped the slashes for me... I edited my post and fixed it. Please look at it again. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Fletchling
Australia (54 posts) Bio
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| Reply #8 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 02:25 AM (UTC) |
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| Awesome, 4 backslashes works, thanks Ksilyan.
Now snugglepot and cuddlepie can share the same map, quest and speedwalk files, she'll be happy about that.
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #9 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 04:47 AM (UTC) |
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| You can save a lot of backslashes by using forward slashes, that seems to work:
for line in io.lines ("c:/tmp/delete_me/foo.txt") do
print(line)
end
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #10 on Sun 03 Dec 2006 05:45 AM (UTC) |
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| | Yes, indeed, Windows also is happy taking forward slashes. I probably should have mentioned that. :-) |
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