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. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (string) = string.dump(function) </source>

Parameters

function: (function) function to convert to string

Return values

Returns (string) string representation of function

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• String
• String.byte
• String.char
• String.dump
• String.find
• String.format
• String.gmatch
• String.gsub
• String.len
• String.lower
• String.match
• String.pack
• String.packsize
• String.rep
• String.reverse
• String.split
• String.sub
• String.unpack
• String.upper

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