Problem with textutils.unserialize

h = fs.open("blueprint","r")
blueprints = textutils.unserialize(h.readAll())
print(type(blueprints))

This is telling me that blueprints is a string, while unserialize is supposed to take a string and return it as a table I thought.
Yes, the file blueprint was written using the textutils.serialize( t ) function.

isn't h.readAll a table?

no, readAll() returns a string, but just to be sure I tested it with readLine(). It still didn't work.

readAll cna't be returning a string, then my whole password program wouldn't be working but it does. Is this the whole code? and can you type the exact error?

That is the entirety of the code, there is no error other than that it says that the type, after using unserialize, is a string.
http://computercraft...p?title=Fs.open according to this, readAll does return a string.
Furthermore, after testing within computercraft, readAll() does return type string.

is it that hard to give me the error code? Say EXACTLY what it says

There is no error.
When I run that program, it prints "string"
That is the entirety of what happens.
However, I expected it to print "table"
That is the problem I am having.
I am wondering why I am not getting a table out of textutils.unserialize( s )

Is this the whole code? It's difficult to help if you're giving only a part of the code, especially if you typed in the snippet of code rather than copying/pasting.

BrolofTheViking, on 14 October 2012 - 07:40 PM said:

That is the entirety of the code, there is no error other than that it says that the type, after using unserialize, is a string.
http://computercraft...p?title=Fs.open according to this, readAll does return a string.
Furthermore, after testing within computercraft, readAll() does return type string.

That is the entire program.
I have never used unserialize before, and I've barely used fs.open, so I decided to write the program in small stages, and check each stage as I went, so that if I ran into any problems I could fix them immediately, without having to search for them in a big program.
Unfortunately, I ran into a problem with the very first thing I was doing, although that is the only part of it that I've never really done before, so I had made sure to check it.

It is not a snippet of the code.

Well, let us see the file you're trying to read. If you didn't save a table to the file using textutils.serialize, unserialize won't return a table.

i dont see any problems, what are the contents of the file blueprints
EDIT: :)/>/>

as I mentioned earlier, what was written to the file was created with textutils.serialize.
This is the file though http://pastebin.com/hAGBnLyw
it is a list of all the block ids, and the metadata of those blocks, at whichever coordinates, written also as serialized tables within the first table, which is then serialized and written to the file.
EDIT: The file does appear to be a little bit messed up, I will try again with a smaller block list and see if I can work it out.
EDIT 2: Well, it did work when I did it with a smaller area. I guess there must be a limit to how long of a line it can write.

Yep, that file is hosed. Ending like: "{[1]=- won't let it serialize properly.

I was a little bit stupid, and assumed that unserialize would give me an error if the file was bad, rather then just return the original string.