The File System

Files in Homebrew

First Approach

The first way of accessing Files is actually from the System.IO.File class, which you can easily find Tutorials for online by searching 'c# file things' on google.

Luckily you can access almost all class in HB-Lua by just typing the name, Slua.CreateClass("ClassName") or Slua.GetClass("ClassName").

In this case, we'll use the second one, since we can't do new File() in C# (instead you use File.ReadAllText("Path")).

So pretty much all we need is:

Slua.GetClass("System.IO.File").ReadAllText("this is where the path goes")

this should return a string object, so just plain text of what's in the File.

For all the functionality System.IO.File has to offer, check out the official Documentation.

Second Approach

Now, using the C# System stuff is useful, but there is something way way easier than that, but it's HB-specific:

file2string("this is where the path goes")

also returns a string, should work exactly the same.

Author: Ryz