Re: How to save a complete table?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM,  <lihwa@gmx.com> wrote:
> Greetings to all Lua programmers,
>
> I want to save a complete table, as it is, to a file. According to the
> information at http://lua-users.org/wiki/SaveTableToFile, it is not
> possible, because "Userdata, Functions, Metatables" will not be saved. This
> is a serious restriction.
>
> Is there a way to save a complete table, without restrictions?
>
> Li Hwa
>

There are a few serialization systems out there (no links handy at the
moment), but you do want to be careful with that as deserializing
untrusted data could end you up with malicious functions.

/s/ Adam