Re: How to save a complete table?

[lihwa@...]

On 05/01/2013 03:13, Coda Highland wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM,  <lihwa@gmx.com> wrote:
> > Greetings to all Lua programmers,
> >
> > I want to save a complete table, as it is, to a file. According to the
> > information at http://lua-users.org/wiki/SaveTableToFile, it is not
> > possible, because "Userdata, Functions, Metatables" will not be saved. This
> > is a serious restriction.
> >
> > Is there a way to save a complete table, without restrictions?
> >
> > Li Hwa
>
> There are a few serialization systems out there (no links handy at the
> moment), but you do want to be careful with that as deserializing
> untrusted data could end you up with malicious functions.
>
> /s/ Adam

I am not very familiar with the terminology. Does "serialization" simply 
means saving a table to a file?