cannot write file with io.open() .write() .close()

Hi guys!

I'm going circles! I'm trying to write a file like this:

local function exportstats()
local exportData = "text"
exportFile = io.open("file.lua", "w")
exportFile:write(exportData)
exportFile:close()
end

at first io and lfs were sanitized, i commented the two lines in MissionScripting.lua

then the file would still not open, although io not being nil, io.open() returned nil, launching DCS in Admin mode solved this error.

So now the script runs error free, but there is no file anywhere :huh:

I got absolutely no clue whats wrong ... any help is very much appreciated!

thanks!

beef

Does it work with an absolute path?

I would guess its somewhere in the dcs program folder if its requiring admin privileges.

i wonder why I didnt look there in the first place :O

thanks mate!

is there any variable/function/reference to the missions folder in saved games? I don't quite feel like typing an absolute path on my harddrive, in case I ever move it to a server it wont work anymore ...

Not that I know of, sorry!

Now that the file is there (i expected the windows search to be more exact) my brain works sufficiently again to find how to find out the current directory: lfs.writedir() returns a string to the current directory.

thanks for your help!