Lua table to string

table_to_string.lua

-- Convert a lua table into a lua syntactically correct string
function table_to_string(tbl)
    local result = "{"
    for k, v in pairs(tbl) do
        -- Check the key type (ignore any numerical keys - assume its an array)
        if type(k) == "string" then
            result = result.."[\""..k.."\"]".."="
        end

        -- Check the value type
        if type(v) == "table" then
            result = result..table_to_string(v)
        elseif type(v) == "boolean" then
            result = result..tostring(v)
        else
            result = result.."\""..v.."\""
        end
        result = result..","
    end
    -- Remove leading commas from the result
    if result ~= "" then
        result = result:sub(1, result:len()-1)
    end
    return result.."}"
end

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And how to do string to table? Do you have an example of that?

And how to do string to table? Do you have an example of that?

You could use a split function like:

function split(inputstr, sep)
        if sep == nil then
                sep = "%s"
        end
        local t={}
        for str in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]+)") do
                table.insert(t, str)
        end
        return t
end

And how to do string to table? Do you have an example of that?

local your_table = loadstring("return " .. code)()

but make sure you are not loading user changed code