Best way to save table data to player instance?

[devhelpdev]

Hey guys! I started working on Data storage on my animal game, what i did is i save the player data in a folder called “PlayerData” for every player in the server, and inside that folder i put in some int values to save the currency, that way i can take the data from another script.

But recently i got confused on how can i save table data as i did

["OwnedAnimals"] = {"Komodo Dragon","Spotted Hyena","African Lion"}

I’m making the owned animal table list, and i wanna save it in the PlayerData folder so i can easily check if the player does/doesn’t have an animal
I did find a way but i dont know if its the best/pratical way i can do this, its basically creating another folder called OwnedAnimals, and then doing a in pairs loop on the OwnedAnimals data and create a string object for each animal

Does anyone know a better way? Any help appreciated!

[TheLazyRaven (Raven)]

You could save it as a string with each variable name separated by a special character such as the comma

[devhelpdev]

How would i get the individual animals apart and check if i have a certain animal?

[TheLazyRaven (Raven)]

Use string.split(stringhere, “specialcharhere”) to recreate your table

[devhelpdev]

Oh, i think that would work. But how would i add for example: The Tiger as another owned animal to the list?

[TheLazyRaven (Raven)]

Concatenate the string with “,The Tiger”

[devhelpdev]

Ok, i’ll try your solution. I’ll message you to see if it works, thanks!

[devhelpdev]

Just a quick question, do you know how i can take away the comma from the start of the string? Since now its like this: “,komodo,tiger” and it creates an empty value from the table

[TheLazyRaven (Raven)]

When creating the string just set the initial string to the first value for convenience.

Otherwise you’d have to perform string manipulation with string.sub and string.len

[devhelpdev]

You really helped me out! Thanks for answering, i can now continue on my datastorage system