Best way to give / receive a long strong from the user?

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#1

I have a system that saves buildings to and from a specially coded string. Here is an example:

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[["Car Chasis","Large Spring","Driver Seat","Winch","Steerable Wheel Mount","Large Wheel","Fixed Wheel Mount"],
{"1":1},
{"9":1,"15":"AACAPwCA77H+/wG1/v8BtW4BAC8AAIC/AIDvMQAAgD97AAAvAACAPwAAAAAAAAAA","13":"P2","12":2,"1":2},
{"9":1,"15":"AACAPwCA77H+/wG1/v8BtW4BAC8AAIC/AIDvMQAAgD97AAAvAABAPwAAAAAAAIA0","13":"Part","12":2,"1":2},
{"9":1,"15":"AACAvwCA77H+/wE1/v8BNW4BAC8AAIA/AIDvsQAAgD97AACvAACAvwAAAAAAAAAA","13":"P41","12":2,"1":2},
{"9":1,"15":"AACAvwCA77H+/wE1/v8BNW4BAC8AAIA/AIDvsQAAgD97AACvAABAvwAAAAAAAIC0","13":"P47","12":2,"1":2},
{"9":1,"15":"ypYrHwAAgD+Yo/Ee/9JtIZij8Z4AAIA/AACAP8qWK5//0m2hAAAAAAAAgD4AAAAA","13":"Primary","12":1,"1":3},
{"9":1,"15":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAIA/AAAAAAAAgD8AAAAAAACAvwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAIA/","13":"HasAttach","12":1,"1":4},
{"9":2,"15":"Gj08MwAAgL+9z3+uAACAvxo9PLPw/4K18P+CNef/fy4AAIC/AAAAAAAAAL8AAAAA","13":"Bottom","12":1,"1":5},
{"9":8,"12":1,"1":6,"14":1},
{"9":3,"15":"Gj08MwAAgL+9z3+uAACAvxo9PLPw/4K18P+CNef/fy4AAIC/AAAAAAAAAL8AAAAA","13":"Bottom","12":1,"1":7},
{"9":10,"12":1,"1":6,"14":1},
{"9":4,"15":"Gj08MwAAgL+9z3+uAACAvxo9PLPw/4K18P+CNef/fy4AAIC/AAAAAAAAAL8AAAAA","13":"Bottom","12":1,"1":5},
{"9":12,"12":1,"1":6,"14":1},
{"9":5,"15":"Gj08MwAAgL+9z3+uAACAvxo9PLPw/4K18P+CNef/fy4AAIC/AACANAAAAL8AAAAA","13":"Bottom","12":1,"1":7},
{"9":14,"12":1,"1":6,"14":1}]

Normally these strings are not seen by the player and they will be stored / retrieved from a datastore. However I might want to have to option of saving or loading a vehicle directly from a string, similar to what Factorio allows with blueprints. To load I could probably use httpservice to read from Pastebin or something similar, but what would be a good way to send this string to the player so they can store it? Is there even a TOS way? No big deal if I can’t have this feature, but it would be pretty slick.

(About 1300 characters)

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#2

Is your question on how to let the player copy and paste the string?
If so, you can set the text of a text box (I think editable can be set to false on it, might need to be set to true though) to the string. A player can then just copy it and save it (and share it) how they want

#3

Is there any limit on the size of the string for text boxes?

#4

Apparently there is - ~1020 characters. You could split the text into multiple textboxes and just have the user copy and paste all of them

#5

This will probably not be feasible as this is a quite small vehicle and already too large for one text box. I could somehow send the text via http and have them obtain it somehow but I cannot imagine that would be remotely TOS.

#6

You could store the string in a datastore with a unique key. Then tell the player that ID and they can copy / paste the ID instead of the whole string. Datastores have a much larger limit

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#7

This is probably the best idea for you @azqjanna. You can just make a system where players can save items using a designed name, so you can just save something like this:

["CoolBuild"] = "1234567890ExampleString"