transform a string in a table?

[SmOkEwOw]

Well I'm here again with other problem.

I want to transform a string (e.g. "Character={lastname="Maciel",firstname="Rui",model="test.mdl",sex="male",}") into a table again.
I tried to use string.ToTable() but it returns me nil.

sv_functions.lua

local meta = FindMetaTable("Player")

function meta:GetCharacterFile() return "rpcharacter/characters/" .. self:UniqueID() .. ".txt" end

function meta:HasCharacter() return file.Exists(self:GetCharacterFile(), "DATA") end

function meta:SetCharacter(firstname, lastname, sex, model)
	local Character = {}
	Character.firstname = firstname
	Character.lastname = lastname
	Character.sex = sex
	Character.model = model
	local CharacterString = table.ToString(Character, "Character", false)
	file.Write(self:GetCharacterFile(), CharacterString)
end

function meta:GetCharacter()
	if self:HasCharacter() then
		return string.ToTable(file.Read(self:GetCharacterFile(), "DATA"))
	else return {} end
end

function meta:GetFirstName() return self:GetCharacter().firstname end

sv_commands.lua

concommand.Add("chdebug", function(ply)
	if ply:IsPlayer() then
		ply:SetCharacter("Rui", "Maciel", "male", "test.mdl")
		print(ply:GetFirstName()) -- method is called from here and just prints nil on console
	end
end)

If someone could help me would be great.

[Willox]

A lazy method would be to use util.TableToJSON and util.JSONToTable.

[SmOkEwOw]

I changed to:

function meta:SetCharacter(firstname, lastname, sex, model)
	local Character = {}
	Character.firstname = firstname
	Character.lastname = lastname
	Character.sex = sex
	Character.model = model
	file.Write(self:GetCharacterFile(), util.TableToJSON(Character, true))
end

function meta:GetCharacter()
	if self:HasCharacter() then
		return util.JSONToTable(file.Read(self:GetCharacterFile(), "DATA"))
	else return {} end
end

and worked.
Thanks again ;)