i need help getting user input after reading files

[domaszigmis 0]

i want to write some code that stores user data in a file and ask the user for the data only if the file is empty and i wrote something similar to this

local comp = require("component")

file = io.open("file","r")

io.input(file)

local read = io.read()

comp.gpu.set(1,1,read)

if read == nil then 

 

  io.close()

  comp.gpu.set(1,1,"the file is empty, what do you ant to put in the file?")

  local req = io.read()

  print(req)

end

now the problem is that after the file is confirmed to be empty the system dosnt ask for user input instead it reads the file and i dont know how to stop it from reading the file and start taking user input again

[ThatCodingGuy53 0]

io.close() isn't how you close a file, it's file:close(), that's why it wasn't working, you didn't close the file properly.

Edited July 19, 2021 by ThatCodingGuy53
Made answer more clear