ldjam55/game/utils.lua at master · jbettaque/ldjam55 · GitHub

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game.utils = {}

function game.utils.serializeTable(val, name, skipnewlines, depth)
	skipnewlines = skipnewlines or false
	depth = depth or 0

	local tmp = string.rep(" ", depth)

	if name then
		tmp = tmp .. name .. " = "
	end

	if type(val) == "table" then
		tmp = tmp .. "{" .. (not skipnewlines and "\n" or "")

		for k, v in pairs(val) do
			tmp = tmp
				.. game.utils.serializeTable(v, k, skipnewlines, depth + 1)
				.. ","
				.. (not skipnewlines and "\n" or "")
		end

		tmp = tmp .. string.rep(" ", depth) .. "}"
	elseif type(val) == "number" then
		tmp = tmp .. tostring(val)
	elseif type(val) == "string" then
		tmp = tmp .. string.format("%q", val)
	elseif type(val) == "boolean" then
		tmp = tmp .. (val and "true" or "false")
	else
		tmp = tmp .. '"[inserializeable datatype:' .. type(val) .. ']"'
	end

	return tmp
end