love.data.pack

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

• love.data
• love.data.unpack
• love.data.getPackedSize