String.dump

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: string

Description

Returns a string containing a binary representation of the given function, so that a later loadstring on this string returns a copy of the function. function must be a Lua function without upvalues.

(string) = string.dump(function)

Parameters

function: (function) function to convert to string

Return values

Returns (string) string representation of function

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• String
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• String.dump
• String.find
• String.format
• String.gmatch
• String.gsub
• String.len
• String.lower
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• String.unpack
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