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Persisting Program State?

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Persisting Program State?

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First, see if writing to a standard format like CSV or XML best suits your needs; a database may also be more appropriate. Second, Lua itself is a clean and fast format to encode hierarchical data. It is very straightforward to read Lua data and ‘run’ it to generate tables: use loadfile() to compile it, and run the resulting function. Writing out Lua tables as Lua code takes a little more effort. Finally, a Lua program can make its whole state persistent with Pluto.

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