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Posted 15 July 2012 - 04:56 PM
How do I save a variable without using a custom api? I want to have my lock program preserve what side the redstone output is on when the world resets, but I cannot figure out how to go about it.
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Australia
Posted 15 July 2012 - 05:08 PM
You could try writing the variables to a file
local function save(data)
f = io.open("rsData", "w")
f:write(tostring(data))
f:close()
end
local function load()
f = io.open("rsData", "r")
rData = f:read("*l")
if rData == "true" then
return true
elseif rData == "false" then
return false
else
return nil
end
49 posts
Posted 15 July 2012 - 05:43 PM
The standard textutils API has a serialize and a unserialize function, which can turn tables into text and vice versa. For a quick solution you could just put whatever you need to store inside a table, serialize and write it to a file.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 05:47 PM
Thank you for your help; I have fixed it up accordingly.