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.newFileData

Creates a new FileData object from a file on disk, or from a string in memory.

0.7.0

Functions

Data:clone	Creates a new copy of the Data object.	11.0
Data:getFFIPointer	Gets an FFI pointer to the Data.	11.3
Data:getPointer	Gets a pointer to the Data.
Data:getSize	Gets the Data's size in bytes.
Data:getString	Gets the full Data as a string.	0.9.0
FileData:getExtension	Gets the extension of the FileData.	0.7.0
FileData:getFilename	Gets the filename of the FileData.	0.7.0
Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.	11.0
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.

Supertypes

• Data
• Object

See Also

• love.filesystem
• File