cut 'n paste from linux lua console
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:08 pm
Subject says it all - it would be nice to be able to select text from the lua console to paste into other apps. Thanks!!
First, a simple line of "io.output(path)" (you pick the path of course) should redirect the standard output (which here is the console) to the file of you're choice. I haven't tried it, but that's the way it's supposed to work. But then you won't see the result in the console.
The other is to open a file and then mirror the print functions with write functions:
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outputPath = "c:\\moho\\scripts\\outputfile.txt" - windows format - whatever you like
local file = io.open(outputPath, "w") -- or "a+" to add to the end of existing file
...
print(result)
outputFile:io.write(result)
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