can spring lua write text to files?

[knorke]

...other than infolog.txt?
and other than stdout which i cant find in windows xp (how do i direct it into a file?)

[Tobi]

Yes, LuaUI (and LuaUI only) can write to arbitrary (text) files in the Spring directory.

You should be able to redirect stdout by doing on a console:

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spring.exe > mystdout.txt

[knorke]

thanks, stdout works now. but spring already writes stuff into it so thats not so great.

How would LuaUI writing to text files work?
Only thing I about lua and file acess is http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_VFS and it seems about reading modfiles

Basically I am just looking for something like
file=openfile("bla.txt")
Spring.Writefile (file, "dumdidumdidum")

edit
ah think i found it

[Beherith]

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fd=	io.open(filename)
	if fd then 
		fileopened=true
	else 
		Echo("Opening " ..filename.. " failed")
		fileopened=false
	end

[knorke]

thanks Beherith, but I would have still needed the write command

Anyway, got it working this way:

file = io.open ("file.txt","w")
file:write("blabla")
file:close()

I had also found this in google:

k = openfile("bla.txt","r")
print(k)

which didnt work.

the "w" is needed, otherwise it says error trying to index lala

[Argh]

k = openfile("bla.txt","r")
print(k)

io.open can operate in read-only (IIRC, it does by default). See Lua Reference.