From c07ab92d9aa4bb50ec2881139624efa5ec6bd7bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: theFox6 <the.fox6@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:38:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add function that generates lua files

---
 README.md         | 7 ++++---
 init.lua          | 7 +++++++
 translateTest.lua | 5 +----
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 85c4e33..5ee1d1b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ It returns the generated lua as string.
 `vp.tl_venus_string(str)` returns the lua generated from the given string  
 It returns the generated lua as string.
 
-## todo
-- perhaps write generated lua files to disk
-- perhaps generate venus from lua
+### generating lua files
+`vp.convert_venus_file(venus_file_in,lua_file_out)` generates a lua file  
+It's arguments can be relative or absolute paths.  
+The venus_file_in will be converted to lua and written to lua_file_out.
diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 6ad9380..a5b3840 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -461,4 +461,11 @@ function parser.dovenus(file)
   return ff()
 end
 
+function parser.convert_venus_file(venus_file_in,lua_file_out)
+  local s = parser.tl_venus_file(venus_file_in)
+  local f = io.open(lua_file_out,"w")
+  f:write(s)
+  f:close()
+end
+
 return parser
diff --git a/translateTest.lua b/translateTest.lua
index fb4494c..a3f826a 100644
--- a/translateTest.lua
+++ b/translateTest.lua
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 local vp = dofile("init.lua")
 local o = "testout/test.lua"
 
-local s = vp.tl_venus_file("test.venus")
-local f = io.open(o,"w")
-f:write(s)
-f:close()
+vp.convert_venus_file("test.venus",o)
 
 dofile(o)