love.data.pack
Available since LÖVE 11.0
This function is not supported in earlier versions.
Packs (serializes) simple Lua values.
This function behaves the same as Lua 5.3's string.pack.
Function
Synopsis
data = love.data.pack( container, format, v1, ... )
Arguments
ContainerType container
- What type to return the encoded data as.
string format
- A string determining how the values are packed. Follows the rules of Lua 5.3's string.pack format strings.
value v1
- The first value (number, boolean, or string) to serialize.
value ...
- Additional values to serialize.
Returns
Notes
Packing integers with values greater than 2^53 is not supported, as Lua 5.1 cannot represent those values in its number type.
See Also
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Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3.
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.data.pack