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    nat12nat12 Member
    edited January 2012 in General questions
    Hello,
    I have started coding the save/load functions of our game, but i encountered a problem, probably i am doing something wrong (first time i do binary IO in lua), here follow a simplified version of my code to better illustrate the problem:
    curLevel = 2
hp = 10
 
function save()
    local file = io.open("|D|save.bin", "w+b")
    file:write(curLevel)
    file:write(hp)
    file:close()
end
 
function load()
    local file = io.open("|D|save.bin", "rb")
    curLevel = file:read("*n")
    hp = file:read("*n")
    file:close()
end
 
 
The problem is when reading i obtain curLevel==210, hp==nil instead of expected curLevel==2, hp==10
i also examined the resulting file (on Windows) and discovered it is saved as text instead of binary as i specified, i suppose the first problem is caused by the second one, any suggestion about how to fix it?
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    • atilimatilim Maintainer
      edited January 2012
      In fact, there is little difference between binary and text files except the handling of the newline. I don't know if there is direct support of writing numbers as binary data (as IEEE 754 format)

      Instead, I can suggest implementing your save/load of your game as Lua tables:

      1. Download table.save-0.94.lua from http://lua-users.org/wiki/SaveTableToFile and add it your project.
      2. Create a table about your progress and save it:
      save = {
  curLevel = 2,
  hp = 10,
}
table.save(save, "|D|save.tbl")
      3. Then you can load your table as:
      save = table.load("|D|save.tbl")
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus
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    • nat12nat12 Member
      Thank You,
      I tried table.save, work fine, for now i will use it.
      for the future, if needed, i consider to implement a more compact text mode save.
      (now that i understand why my attempt not worked i am confident to be capable of doing it right)

      Just for information: table.load function miss a "local tables,err" at begin, to be usable with strict.lua
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    • atilimatilim Maintainer
      edited January 2012
      good tip. thank you.

      Edit: I've committed table.save to https://github.com/gideros/table.save and make variables local at table.load after your suggestion.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus
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