33 posts
Posted 29 November 2012 - 01:30 PM
Whenever I print a table it comes up with table:something. How do I turn the table into text or a string?
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[Question]How do you turn a table into text.
Started by whatsfast, 29 November 2012 - 12:30 PM
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 01:34 PM
If you want to print what's in a table, you have to either go through it with a loop,
or just use table.concat().
for i=1, #someTable do
print(someTable[i])
end
or just use table.concat().
print(table.concat(someTable,', ')) -- prints every part of the table with a comma in between each of them
1054 posts
Posted 29 November 2012 - 02:39 PM
It the table contains strings and numbers, then Kingdaro's suggestion:
print(table.concat(someTable,',\n'))
textutils.tabulate(someTable)
2005 posts
Posted 30 November 2012 - 10:01 AM
textutils.serialize is mainly intended for when you need to store/transmit a table (in a file or over rednet), but it can also be useful if you just want the maximum specificity on the layout of the table.