Re: serializing lua tables

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Mar 21, 2005, at 16:59, Adrian Sietsma wrote:

> i have lua read-write configs, but i'd like to keep the config format 
> and comments.

What about perhaps reading your configuration file line by line into a 
table array to preserve all the content as well as the ordering. Out of 
this array, you could extract the configuration lines themselves by 
splitting each lines which are not comments into key value pairs. This 
gives you the configuration itself. After modifying a value, you can 
rewrite your configuration file as it was originally by merging the 
changes into the table array. That way you could preserve both ordering 
and comments. The only issue left is where to put new key value pairs. 
Perhaps dumping them at the end of the configuration file would be good 
enough?

Cheers

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