Love_INI_Paser: how to read and write headers with variables?

[Shadowblitz16]

can someone tell me how to read and write ini headers based on a string variable?

this is the example he gives but it uses variable names and not variable values

for example I want to eventually make a game where there is an editor and the user can make tiles, npcs, items, and backgrounds and then add them to the editor

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ini = require('ini')
game = {}

-- Resource functions
function game:loadTiles()
	-- Load all tile config's here depending on how many there are in the folder
	
	-- Load all tile properties
end
function game:getTile(tile)
	-- Return tile id
end

return game

[BroccoliRaab]

Given their example:

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local LIP = require 'LIP';

local data =
{
	sound =
	{
		left = 70,
		right = 80,
	},
	screen =
	{
		width = 960,
		height = 544,
		caption = 'Windows caption',
		focused = true,
	},
};

-- Data saving
LIP.save('savedata.ini', data);

You can instead do :

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local LIP = require 'LIP';

local data =
{
	["sound"] =
	{
		left = 70,
		right = 80,
	},
	["screen"] =
	{
		width = 960,
		height = 544,
		caption = 'Windows caption',
		focused = true,
	},
};

-- Data saving
LIP.save('savedata.ini', data);

I ran this and it worked however in the LIP source code I had to change line 44 from. (This is irrelevant to your question, however if LIP throws an error this will probably solve it):

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local file = assert(lovefile:open('w+b'), 'Error loading file :' .. fileName);

to

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local file = assert(lovefile:open('w'), 'Error loading file :' .. fileName);