Port string.pack and string.unpack from Lua 5.3 to RBX.Lua

[Tomarty]

This would be extremely useful. Datastores don’t support binary data though:

DataStore wont accept "<" or bytes 128-255

local text = "¿" -- aka "\191" game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Test"):SetAsync("test", text) [blob.png] Lua supports strings with bytes 0-255 It would be nice having more than 1-127 for lots of things like blocky-voxel-map data, compact serializers, or just foreign text. Also I don’t think this is documented on the wiki.

Lua strings are very good at packing binary data, it’s often disappointing that the Roblox API treats them like ordinary non-Lua strings.