FileData

Available since LÖVE 0.7.0
This object is not supported in earlier versions.

Data representing the contents of a file.

Constructors

love.filesystem.newFileDataCreates a new FileData object from a file on disk, or from a string in memory.

Functions

Data:cloneCreates a new copy of the Data object.
Data:getFFIPointerGets an FFI pointer to the Data.
Data:getPointerGets a pointer to the Data.
Data:getSizeGets the Data's size in bytes.
Data:getStringGets the full Data as a string.
FileData:getExtensionGets the extension of the FileData.
FileData:getFilenameGets the filename of the FileData.
Object:releaseImmediately destroys the object's Lua reference.
Object:typeGets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOfChecks whether an object is of a certain type.

Supertypes

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