String to table

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I used data store where each currency and everything was stored individually with their own key which wasted alot of space, made it slower and i reached the limit. i tried to shitch to tables now but i need to make the dictionary tables within them and not just normal ones as each item has some more configurations. I tried to turn a normal table into dictionary with given name but i coudnt find a way to do it. anyone know how to do it?

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Assuming both keys and value can become string, You can turn a dictionary to string by running

local function dictionaryToString(dictionary)

local result = ""
for key,value in pairs(dictionary) do

local newKeyValPair = tostring(key) .. "," .. tostring(value)
result = result .. "|" .. newKeyValPair

end
return result

end

to convert this back into a dictionary, you can do

local function stringToDict(StringInput)

local result = {}
local keyValPairs = StringInput:split("|")
for i,keyVal in ipairs(keyValPairs) do
keyVal = keyVal:split(",")
result[keyVal[1]] = keyVal[2]
end
return result

end
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uhhhh 
local Colors = {
    RED = "\27[31m",      -- for numbers
    GREEN = "\27[32m",    -- for booleans
    YELLOW = "\27[33m",   -- for strings
    CYAN = "\27[36m",     -- for keys
    RESET = "\27[0m"
}

local function colorize(value, color)
    return string.format("%s%s%s", color or "", value, Colors.RESET)
end

local function serialize(value, indent)
    indent = indent or ""

    local t = type(value)

    if t == "string" then
        return colorize(string.format("%q", value), Colors.YELLOW)
    elseif t == "number" then
        return colorize(tostring(value), Colors.RED)
    elseif t == "boolean" then
        return colorize(tostring(value), Colors.GREEN)
    elseif t == "table" then
        return visualize(value, indent)
    elseif t == "nil" then
        return colorize("nil", Colors.GREEN)
    else
        return colorize("<"..tostring(value)..">", Colors.YELLOW)
    end
end

function visualize(tbl: {}, indent: string): string
    indent = indent or ""
    local gap = "    "

    if not next(tbl) then
        return "{}"
    end

    local result = "{\n"

    for key, value in next, tbl do
        if type(key) == "string" then
            key = colorize(key, Colors.CYAN)
        else
            key = "[" .. serialize(key, indent..gap) .. "]"
        end

        result ..= string.format("%s%s = %s,\n", indent..gap, key, serialize(value, indent..gap))
    end

    result ..= indent .. "}"
    return result
end

return function(tbl: {}, ...)
    local res = visualize(tbl)
    print(res, ...)
end

i use this in VSCode when I want to view tables, don’t know if studio supports the colors, probably not so just remove the colorize function

nvm this is not what u were looking for but imma keep this incase anyone else needs this

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so there is the main table that is saved, within there are subtables that have more values, something like this i want to archive:
[“tableThatSaves”] = {
------[“Currency1”] = {
------------[“Owned”] = 20,
------------[“Value2”] = 1,
------},
------ [“Currency2”] = {
------------[“Owned”] = 15,
------------[“Value2”] = 2,
------},
}

i have the parts
[“Currency2”] = {
------[“Owned”] = 15,
------[“Value2”] = 2,
},
done but not as dictionary rather normal table defined as
local tableName = {
------[“Owned”] = 15,
------[“Value2”] = 2,
},

and i need to turn the preset savetable
[“tableToSave”] = {
------ “Currency1”,
------“Currency2”,
}
to connect via changing strings in it to coresponding dictionary tables

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basicly turn a String within a table into an dictionary table whose name is the same as string with already pre-defined content which another normal table has

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Not sure if this could work, but call the function recursively?

local dictionaryToString
dictionaryToString = function(dictionary)

local result = ""
for key,value in pairs(dictionary) do

local toJoin = ""
if typeof(value) == "table" then
task.wait() -- prevent timeouts
toJoin = dictionaryToString(value)
else
toJoin = tostring(key) .. "," .. tostring(value)
end

result = result .. "|" .. toJoin 

end
return result

end
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thank you for the reply, however i did on end menage to find a way to go around this, not that i like it too much but it works

i just kept it saved by index numbers as i do already have them pre-stored so i called the tables by indexes and not the names

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