Forces pending disk writes to be executed. fileWrite doesn't directly write to the hard disk but places the data in a temporary buffer; only when there is enough data in the buffer it is actually written to disk. Call this function if you need the data written right now without closing the file. This is useful for log files that might want to be read while the resource is still executing. fileFlush can be called after each log entry is written. Without this, the file may appear empty or outdated to the user.

Note

fileClose automatically flushes the file.

OOP Syntax Help! I don't understand this!

• Method: file:flush(...)

Syntax

bool fileFlush ( file theFile )

Required Arguments

• theFile: The file handle of the file you wish to flush.

Returns

• bool: result

Returns true if succeeded, false in case of failure (e.g. the file handle is invalid).

Code Examples

Example 1 Example 2 (OOP)

shared

local fileHandle = fileCreate("test.txt")
if fileHandle then
    fileWrite(fileHandle, "Line 1")
    fileFlush(fileHandle)
    -- ... further writing operations
    fileClose(fileHandle)
end

shared

OOP Required

local fileHandle = File.new("test.txt")
if (fileHandle) then
    fileHandle:write("Line 1")
    fileHandle:flush()
    -- ... further writing operations
    fileHandle:close()
end

See Also

File Functions

• fileClose
• fileCopy
• fileCreate
• fileDelete
• fileExists
• fileFlush
• fileGetContents
• fileGetHash
• fileGetPath
• fileGetPos
• fileGetSize
• fileIsEOF
• fileRead
• fileOpen
• fileRename
• fileSetPos
• fileWrite

File Elements

• file

Reference

• Scripting Functions