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util.TableToJSON

  string util.TableToJSON( table table, boolean prettyPrint = false )
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Description

Converts a table to a JSON string.

See util.JSONToTable for the opposite function.

All keys are strings in the JSON format, so all keys of other types will be converted to strings!

All integers will be output as decimals (5 -> 5.0), since all numbers in Lua are internally floating point values.

This will produce invalid JSON if the provided table contains nan or inf values.

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Arguments

1 table table
Table to convert.
2 boolean prettyPrint = false
Format and indent the JSON.

Returns

1 string
A JSON formatted string containing the serialized data

Example

Writes the positions and angles of every player to a JSON file called playerstuff.json.

local Players = {} for k, v in ipairs(player.GetAll()) do Players[k] = { pos = v:GetPos(), ang = v:GetAngles() } end local tab = util.TableToJSON( Players ) -- Convert the player table to JSON file.CreateDir( "jsontest" ) -- Create the directory file.Write( "jsontest/playerstuff.json", tab) -- Write to .json

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