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[whatsfast]

Whenever I print a table it comes up with table:something. How do I turn the table into text or a string?

[Kingdaro]

If you want to print what's in a table, you have to either go through it with a loop,

for i=1, #someTable do
  print(someTable[i])
end

or just use table.concat().

print(table.concat(someTable,', ')) -- prints every part of the table with a comma in between each of them

[Dlcruz129]

textutils.serialize(table)

[Orwell]

It the table contains strings and numbers, then Kingdaro's suggestion:

print(table.concat(someTable,',\n'))

and

textutils.tabulate(someTable)

Might be the quickest and cleanest ways to print it readable.

[ChunLing]

textutils.serialize is mainly intended for when you need to store/transmit a table (in a file or over rednet), but it can also be useful if you just want the maximum specificity on the layout of the table.