Summary
Flushes outstanding data to disk
Prototype
f:flush ()
Description
Flushes outstanding data to disk.
f:flush () -- save everything
See Also ...
Lua functions
f:close - Closes a file f:lines - Returns an iterator function for reading the file line-by-line f:read - Reads the file according to the specified formats f:seek - Sets and gets the current file position f:setvbuf - Sets the buffering mode for an output file f:write - Writes to a file io.close - Closes a file io.flush - Flushes outstanding data to disk for the default output file io.input - Opens filename for input in text mode io.lines - Returns an iterator function for reading a named file line-by-line io.open - Opens a file io.output - Opens a file for output io.popen - Creates a pipe and executes a command io.read - Reads from the default input file io.stderr - File handle for standard error file io.stdin - File handle for standard input file io.stdout - File handle for standard output file io.tmpfile - Returns a handle to a temporary file io.type - Returns type of file handle io.write - Writes to the default output file
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Lua base functions Lua bc (big number) functions Lua bit manipulation functions Lua coroutine functions Lua debug functions Lua io functions Lua math functions Lua os functions Lua package functions Lua PCRE regular expression functions Lua script extensions Lua string functions Lua syntax Lua table functions Lua utilities Scripting Scripting callbacks - plugins
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