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[Left4Cake]

Is it possible to execute code in a loop for each character in a file?

[Noodle]

What exactly do you mean?
Execute code..
In a loop..
Each character in a file?

[Lyqyd]

for char in string.gmatch(file.readAll(), ".") do

[MatazaNz]

Do you mean to execute different functions with their own key press? If so, then it's perfectly possible.
You can do something like this:

local event,p1 = os.pullEvent()
if event == "char" and p1 == "<key>" then
  <function>
elseif <same as above with different key>
  <function>
end

[Left4Cake]

MatazaNz, on 06 October 2012 - 03:04 AM, said:

Do you mean to execute different functions with their own key press? If so, then it's perfectly possible.
You can do something like this:

I mean to read a file and then execute code for each char in the file as opposed to each line of a file.

[MatazaNz]

Sounds simple enough, but probably not too simple. I think you could have a bunch of local variables for each character, and link those characters to functions.

[GopherAtl]

Left4Cake, on 13 October 2012 - 01:14 AM, said:

MatazaNz, on 06 October 2012 - 03:04 AM, said:

Do you mean to execute different functions with their own key press? If so, then it's perfectly possible.
You can do something like this:

I mean to read a file and then execute code for each char in the file as opposed to each line of a file.

yeeah... what lyqyd said does exactly that.