[RESOLVED] This works in Windows but not in Mac. Seems very basic, please help.

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

It is seeing the if statement as false and not printing “Works”. It does read the file and position[1] does equal “1”. There are no errors. Again this works in Windows but not on Mac. Same code, same Corona build.

position = {}

local i = 1

filePath = system.pathForFile( “data.txt”, system.DocumentsDirectory )

local file = io.open( filePath, “r” )

    local contents = file:read( “*a” )

    io.close( file )

    local ylast = 130

    for line in io.lines(filePath) do  

        position[i] = line

        local t = display.newText( position[i], 15, ylast, nil, 30 );

        t:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255 );    

        ylast = ylast + 20

        i = i + 1

    end

    

    if position[1] == “1” then

        local tt = display.newText( “Works”, 25, 800, nil, 50 );

        tt:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255 );    

    end

#2

Ok I got it to work. It seems when I recreated the text file on the mac it solved the problem. For some reason it didn’t like the txt file that I brought over from windows. 

#3

Good observation and that very well could be a potential issue.   Windows uses a 2 character line ending (the CR and LF characters) or sometimes just the CR character (CTRL-M or ASCII 13).  Mac OS-X is a Unix variant where a single LF character marks the end of a line (CTRL-J or ASCII 10).  Depending on how you copied them over, the end of line markers may not have been updated for the Operating system’s standards.

#4

Ok I got it to work. It seems when I recreated the text file on the mac it solved the problem. For some reason it didn’t like the txt file that I brought over from windows. 

#5

Good observation and that very well could be a potential issue.   Windows uses a 2 character line ending (the CR and LF characters) or sometimes just the CR character (CTRL-M or ASCII 13).  Mac OS-X is a Unix variant where a single LF character marks the end of a line (CTRL-J or ASCII 10).  Depending on how you copied them over, the end of line markers may not have been updated for the Operating system’s standards.