Re: Function to improve on 'print(table)'

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

On Sep 01, 2007, at 21:05, Mason Deaver wrote:

> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Data.lua
>
> Works great, except the output is all on one line.  I changed line
> 110, added a newline to the format string, so it looks like this:
>
> aBuffer[ #aBuffer + 1 ] = ( '\n%s[%s]=%s' ):format( aName, aKey, 
> aValue )

Alternatively, you could change line 113 instead:

    return table.concat( aBuffer, '\n' )

> I find this output style helpful, especially with complex nested 
> tables.

This is also valid Lua code, so you can use it as a simple 
serialization format.