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[LewisTehMinerz]

I have a table in a different file that shows like this:

{
"Testing Tables",
}

How do I convert it into a string?

[Dragon53535]

local tableString = textutils.serialize(tbl)

Turns tbl into a string

local tbl = textutils.unserialize(tableString)

back into a table.

Edited by Dragon53535, 14 November 2014 - 05:22 PM.

[LewisTehMinerz]

Cheers! I asked this because I'm making a package manager for my OS (in testing) that when it gets a defined argument (-pkg) it will load up the .pkg file (aka a table with all the links in it so the manager can download the correct files) and install the program

EDIT: How can I make it so if it fails to load it because it's not a table, it prints an error?

Edited by lewislovesgames, 14 November 2014 - 05:26 PM.

[KingofGamesYami]

Add this in after

if type( tbl ) ~= "table" then
  error( "Your custom error message", 0 )
end

[LewisTehMinerz]

@Dragon53535 & @KingofGamesYami would you like to join the FrostOS team? The package manager is part of this OS and you can join the community if you want. Get Github if you want to join. I'd be so happy if you'd join! (Also, I'll put you into the Owners)