On 8/10/2025 12:01 PM, Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 10.08.25 um 11:41 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
Am 10.08.2025 um 11:33 schrieb Hraban Ramm:
Hi again,
for caching some generated data, I’d like to save a nested Lua table
to a file, and load it later.
I found http://lua-users.org/wiki/SaveTableToFile
Is there already something (better) in ConTeXt? I'd assume, since the
functionality is needed for tuc files?
table.tofile("my_file.lua",my_table)
Thank you, I overlooked that in cld-mkiv, since I was looking for
table.save (which was mentioned in a thread about Ecir Baff’s art).
And for reading context.runfile, right? What does it better than Lua’s
dofile?
You don't tell what you want to do with the file
table.save("my_file.lua",my_table)
my_table = tabel.load("my_file.lua")
wrt runfiles benefits:
- finding the file
- checking it
- reporting on it
Hans
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