io.read string to table

[Karasuro 0]

So I have tables in a text file. 1 line per table so that when I read from the file using var:lines() and put each line into a table in the program, they are accessible. However, now I have a table of strings that looks like this:

"{user = "ADMIN", pass = "ADMIN", settings = {}, admin = true},"
"{user = "KARASURO", pass = "TEST", settings = {} }"

What would be the best way to get these tables from the file without them being strings?

(How does one table a string?)

[Fingercomp 37]

So, I guess, you want to unserialize a table. This can be done using the unserialize function from the serialization library. Here's the sample code:

-- Require the library
local srl = require("serialization")

-- The table of serialized tables
tables = {
  '{user = "ADMIN", pass = "ADMIN", settings = {}, admin = true}',
  '{user = "KARASURO", pass = "TEST", settings = {}}'
}

-- The table where unserialized tables will be put
unsrlTables = {}

-- Finally, unserialize
for k, tbl in pairs(tables) do
  unsrlTables[k] = srl.unserialize(tbl)
end

[Karasuro 0]

I'm only receiving the last line from the file in my table so there's only 1 entry?

[dgelessus 26]

Maybe you need to remove the trailing comma from the lines - every line except the last one has a comma at the end, and a trailing comma isn't valid table/serialization syntax, that would explain why only the last line loads.

[natedogith1 4]

I'm only receiving the last line from the file in my table so there's only 1 entry?

What code are you using to unserialize the file? (if you had said it was the first line you might have gotten around it by making the file contain one table instead of two (wrap the entire thing in {}))

 

Maybe you need to remove the trailing comma from the lines - every line except the last one has a comma at the end, and a trailing comma isn't valid table/serialization syntax, that would explain why only the last line loads.

Actually, from the lua manual (section 3.4.8 or 3.4.9 - Table Constructors) "The field list can have an optional trailing separator, as a convenience for machine-generated code."

[dgelessus 26]

I think that "trailing aeparator" thing refers to separators *in* the table braces (like {1, 2, 3,}). The issue here is (or at least might be) that there is a comma *after* the closing brace