Type Function Library io.* Return value none Revision Release 2024.3703 Keywords io, close, file See also io.open() io.read()
Closes an open file handle. Equivalent to file:close()
. If a file handle is not specified, this function closes the default output file.
io.close( [file] )
-- Path for the file local path = system.pathForFile( "myfile.txt", system.DocumentsDirectory ) -- Open the file handle local file, errorString = io.open( path, "r" ) if not file then -- Error occurred; output the cause print( "File error: " .. errorString ) else -- Read data from file local contents = file:read( "*a" ) -- Output the file contents print( "Contents of " .. path .. "\n" .. contents ) -- Close the file handle io.close( file ) end file = nil