FromJSON: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:46, 13 June 2010

This function parses a JSON formatted string into variables. You can use toJSON to encode variables into a JSON string that can be read by this function.

Syntax

var fromJSON ( string json )

Required Arguments

json: A JSON formatted string

Returns

Returns variables read from the JSON string.

Example

This should make data equal: {1="cat", 2="mouse", 3=5, 4=null, 5={cat=5, mouse=1}} (untested)

local data = fromJSON("[\"cat\", \"mouse\", 5, null, {cat:5, mouse:1}]")

Example 2

local name, weapon, ammo = fromJSON("[\"Desert Eagle\", 24, 147]")

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 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
 local data = fromJSON("[\"cat\", \"mouse\", 5, null, {cat:5, mouse:1}]")
+</syntaxhighlight>
+==Example 2==
+<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
+local name, weapon, ammo = fromJSON("[\"Desert Eagle\", 24, 147]")
 </syntaxhighlight>
 ==See Also==
 {{Server_functions}}