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Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?) [solved]

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I simply need to store some tables in one instance of a game, and then load them in another.

context:
Platformer.
Different objects are stored in different tables based on their object type. (I.e. one table for platforms, another for enemies)
I want to create level editor, where I instantiate different objects onto a grid area (i.e. create platforms, and place enemy positions)

need:
To save the results of the level editor.
I think this means that the various tables of objects need to be stored to a file.
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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Have you looked at TSerial?
I found thistoo on Lua-Users...
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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This is untested but something like this may work

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local FILE = "YourSaveDirectory"

function tableToString(t) -- In case of multi dimensional arrays
local str = ""
    for k,v in pairs(t) do
        if type(v)=="table" then
            str = "{"..tableToString(v).."},\n"
        else
            str = str..k.."="..v..","
        end
    end
return str
end

function save(table)
if love.filesystem.exists(FILE) then
    love.filesystem.remove(FILE)
end
love.filesystem.newFile(FILE)
success = love.filesystem.write(FILE,tableToString(table))
end

function load()
if love.filesystem.exists(FILE) then
    love.filesystem.load(FILE)()--"Runs" the file i.e loads the table
end
end
Also to have the same directory for the editor and game add this to conf.lua

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function love.conf(t)
--Rest of conf file here
t.indentity = "YourDirectory"
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

Post by The Burrito »

It's not tile based but I do something that looks like this:

when making objects in editor:

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makeThing(x,y,a,def)
local t = {}
t.x = x
t.y = y
t.a = a
t.d = def
(do the stuff that actually makes the object)
table.insert(things,t)
then it saves like this:

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for i,v in ipairs(things) do
love.filesystem.write( filename, "makeThing("..v.x..","..v.y..","..v.a..","..v.d..")\n")
end
This is from memory so it's probably wrong (don't have access to my code right now). I prefer to generate readable files so they're fairly easy to edit by hand if need be. To load rather than parsing the file back into a table it runs like any other lua file. This means I can use this as a way to inject custom code into specific maps and stuff like that.
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

Post by Roland_Yonaba »

mickeyjm wrote:This is untested but something like this may work

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local FILE = "YourSaveDirectory"

function tableToString(t) -- In case of multi dimensional arrays
local str = ""
    for k,v in pairs(t) do
        if type(v)=="table" then
            str = "{"..tableToString(v).."},\n"
        else
            str = str..k.."="..v..","
        end
    end
return str
end


This is not going to work, The recursive part simply erases the string being buit...
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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Roland_Yonaba wrote:
mickeyjm wrote:This is untested but something like this may work

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local FILE = "YourSaveDirectory"

function tableToString(t) -- In case of multi dimensional arrays
local str = ""
    for k,v in pairs(t) do
        if type(v)=="table" then
            str = "{"..tableToString(v).."},\n"
        else
            str = str..k.."="..v..","
        end
    end
return str
end


This is not going to work, The recursive part simply erases the string being buit...
Easy enough to fix, just need to change it to

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if type(v)=="table" then
            str = str.."{"..tableToString(v).."},\n"
        else
although I don't see why you wouldn't just use a library.
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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iemfi wrote: Easy enough to fix, just need to change it to

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if type(v)=="table" then
            str = str.."{"..tableToString(v).."},\n"
        else
although I don't see why you wouldn't just use a library.
Thats what i meant but as i said, it is untested.
Also i forgot to say i think that the file must be a .lua
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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mickeyjm wrote: Also i forgot to say i think that the file must be a .lua
No need to...Just a simple file containing a string to be executed as a chunk...
I am wondering if love.filesystem.load is not actually just a binding to loadstring...
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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Roland_Yonaba wrote:
mickeyjm wrote: Also i forgot to say i think that the file must be a .lua
No need to...Just a simple file containing a string to be executed as a chunk...
I am wondering if love.filesystem.load is not actually just a binding to loadstring...
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Re: Saving and Loading Tables (in text files?)

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love.filesystem.load opens the file, reads it contents and loads that, if that's what you mean. It's the love.filesystem alternative to loadfile.
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