How to save a table to a string and convert it back to a table

[LC Creations]

I need to save an entire table to a string then convert it back to a table when the server is opened up.

[Andrey01]

To convert a table to the string, use minetest.serialize()

To convert back, use minetest.deserialize()

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... .txt#L5414

[FreeLikeGNU]

Now if only we had a helper to convert a couch to a string and back...

[ShadMOrdre]

look at my lib_towns mod on github. or lib_materials or lib_ecology. or the newly released lib_mg_continental. The last one is the best example.

I generate random positions and save the values to both a table and a string. The string builds, record by record, an indexed table, complete with .csv style seperators. If properly constructed, you can unpack each record right back into a table a startup.

The meat of the code is from Gael de Sailly. There are many implementations of this as a quick and easy database in the above mentioned mods.