[Help]tables as args/saving tables

Hi there. I'm trying to create a function that would save all the tables argued to it (and do some other silly extravagances left unsaid for the purposes of this exercise). What I am envisioning is a function you would argue a table full of table-names to. It would then string each of those tables and save them to separate files. I intend to use this function frequently through the program I'm defining it for to save the program's active database to files for some stability during operation - basically any time the tables are changed.

I've gone as far as defining a table full of the other tables, and I can make the code walk through those tables and deserialize them 1 by 1, but I can't figure out how to also use those tables NAMES for the filename argument. Am I attacking the problem wrong?

Yes. The function will not have access to your table unless you give it your table. One way or another, you'll have to pass the table and the table's name.

Alright. This function might not be as easy to generalize as I thought. I'll just go the long way around and save each file manually.

For eg, if you were doing something like this:

local doStuffWithTables(tables)
	for i = 1, #tables do
		--# process tables[i]
	end
end

local myTables = {table1, table2, table3}

doStuffWithTables(myTables)

… then you might change it to something like this:

local doStuffWithTables(tables)
	for keyname, curTable in pairs(tables) do
		--# Serialise curTable and save it as keyname
	end
end

local myTables = {["table1"] = table1, ["table2"] = table2, ["table3"] = table3}

doStuffWithTables(myTables)

Oh, that's quite elegant. Thank you.