starlightibuki / lua-table-dump

lua table dump

A function to dump a lua table in proper format.

Installation

The module has no dependence.

luarocks install table_dump

or

luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/suikabreaker/lua-table-dump/master/table_dump-1.0-1.rockspec

Usage

Example:

local table_dump = require 'table_dump'
local test = {
    key = "value",
    dict = {
        nested_key = '1',
        1, 2, 3
    }
}

print(table_dump(test, -1, true))

API:

function table_dump(value: any, indent: any, try_tostring: any)  -> string

value accept almost all kind of Lua values. indent defaults to 2, and you can use -1 to output in single line without any indent. When try_tostring set to true, the function will try tostring to output the table before DFS into it.