G.TableToKeyValues

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This function is being moved to the util library once the GMod Beta 13 update becomes public

Function
Syntax	TableToKeyValues( Table table ) Where is this used?
Description:
Converts a table into a key-value string.
Returns:	String
Part of Library:	Global Functions
Realm:
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Example

Description	This example format the table ready for output to a file.
Used on
Code	local my_table = {} my_table["health"] = 123.3 my_table["name"] = "Billy" my_table["extra"] = {} my_table["extra"]["param1"] = 234; my_table["extra"]["param2"] = "Balloon"; my_table["extra"]["param3"] = tostring(true); my_table["extra"]["param4"] = true;   Msg( G.TableToKeyValues(my_table) )
Output	{ "health" "123.3" "name" "Billy" "extra" { "param1" "234" "param2" "Balloon" "param3" "true" } }

Note the that my_table["extra"]["param4"] just disappears. Use tostring() as shown with "param3" to put booleans in the table.

Additional Notes

• This method of data storage is now considered deprecated. It is recommended to use GLON. GLON can encode/decode all types of data and does not return keys as lowercase. Unfortunately, the encoded data is no longer human-readable, but this only means the files can't be edited externally - it is much more efficient in all other manners.

See Also

• KeyValuesToTable
• glon
• glon.encode
• glon.decode