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<function name="ReadLine" parent="File" type="classfunc"> <description> Returns the contents of the file from the current position up until the end of the current line. <note>This function will look specifically for `Line Feed` characters &lt;pre class="plain inline"&gt;\n&lt;/pre&gt; and will **completely ignore `Carriage Return` characters** &lt;pre class="plain inline"&gt;\r&lt;/pre&gt;.</note> <note>This function will look specifically for `Line Feed` characters `\n` and will **completely ignore `Carriage Return` characters** `\r`.</note> <note>This function will not return more than 8192 characters.</note> </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <rets> <ret name="" type="string">The string of data from the read line.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Open a file in read only mode, reads a line, tells where the current file pointer is at and then closes the file handle.</description> <code> local f = file.Open( "cfg/mapcycle.txt", "r", "MOD" ) print( f:ReadLine() ) print( f:ReadLine() ) print( f:Tell() ) f:Close() </code> <outputfixedwidth>Fixed width</outputfixedwidth> <output> // // Default mapcycle file for Garry's Mod. 45 </output> </example>