Re: [NTG-context] problem with lua io.lines

14 Aug 2013


      On 8/14/2013 4:43 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
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Am 2013-08-14 um 20:15 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster :
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Current beta MkIV seems to have a bug in the Lua function io.lines:
for myline in io.lines(myfile) do
logs.report(myline)
end
"myfile" just contains one line with a number, without return/newline.
If the number has more than one digit, I get single digits as "myeline".
Do you have a minimal working example?
Minimal working yes, but not minimal failing ;-)
This works:
io.output(io.open("myfile.txt","w"))
io.write("123")
io.close()
for myline in io.lines("myfile.txt") do
   print(myline .. "\n")
end
But in my t-lilyfilter.tex where it reads the systems.count files of LilyPond (that contain only the number of note systems that resulted from the included LilyPond code), it fails:
function thirddata.parselilypondfile(name)
    -- include all systems (note lines)
    -- name is like \LILYTEMP/mainfile-temp-lilypond-21.pdf
    logs.report("LILYPOND","name='" .. name .. "'")
    syco = 0
    for ts in io.lines(string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-systems.count')) do
      syco = ts*1
    end
for nr = 1, syco do
      logs.report("LILYPOND","including system no." .. nr)
      context("\\externalfigure[" .. string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-' .. nr) .. "]")
    end
  end
While I have a single-digit number of systems, it works, but the song of my failing case has 11 lines.
I wouldn't complain if it wouldn't have worked before!
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

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)


or maybe better:

   io.lines(file.replacesuffix(name,'-systems.count'))

Hans

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