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Packs (serializes) simple Lua values.
 
Packs (serializes) simple Lua values.
  
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== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
Packing integers with values greater than 2^52 is not supported, as Lua 5.1 cannot represent those values in its number type.  
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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 ==
 
== See Also ==

Latest revision as of 14:30, 25 November 2019

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

value data
Data/string which contains the serialized data.

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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