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[HDeffo]

more nitpicking than anything so I doubt this will be considered but suggesting it none the less. The Lua program current serializes table output to make it easy to read. This is a really nice feature however due to the limited size constraints the tables quickly because unreadable by being pushed off the screen. I am suggesting instead it be changed to something like

print( textutils.serialize(output):gsub("\n","") )

now obviously that's not the cleanest solution and leaves a ton of needless spaces behind but its the easiest example of what I am suggesting. Essentially I believe the Lua program should try to condense the serialized tables as much as possible before printing so they are easier to read

Edited by HDeffo, 15 May 2016 - 06:43 PM.

[Bomb Bloke]

An alternative would be:

textutils.pagedPrint( serialised )

Granted scrolling might take a while for longer tables, but there's always Ctrl + T.

[Luca_S]

Maybe something like a

textutils.compactSerialise()

function would be nice.

[Anavrins]

I'd say in the same style that serializeJSON(t, true) returns a different format, serialize(t, true) could return in a compact version.
Although, so far I've been using serialize(t):gsub("\n%s*", ""), the only issue with that is of course, any string value that contains \n will be affected.

Edited by Anavrins, 16 May 2016 - 09:44 PM.