Lua Convert String to Table

[Printer]

Hello,

Im bit stuck with something. I want to convert string to table, since attributes does not accept tables and i suck on using prefixs.

target:setAttribute(ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_DESCRIPTION, ("{name = %s}, {level = %d}"):format(player:getName(), player:getLevel()))

local t = {}
target:getAttribute(ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_DESCRIPTION):gsub("{(.-)}", function(a) t[#t+ 1] = a end)

So i would like to split name/level as key entry and value entry. So will be able to loop like this:

for _, v in ipairs(t) do
    print(v.name, value.level)
end

Cheers.

 

[Zothion]

local t = loadstring("return "..target:getAttribute(ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_DESCRIPTION))()

should set the table in description to t

you can also use serialize functions (i believe mkalo posted serialize/unserialize on otland somewhere)

if you want ppl to read the string (and not just for internal uses), why not just string.match?