Can you pass a table through SetPData?

[Mistur Man]

Hey, I come here with the question, can you pass, say, a table through SetPData, or do you have to use variables.. e.g:

[lua]
local pies = 10
function addPie(player)
player:SetPData("pie", pies)
end;

local table = {
"value1",
"value2"
}

function tableAdd(player)
player:SetPData("tables", table)
end;
[/lua]

Thanks for your help, sorry if this sound's really bad, but I just wanted to ask before I start to experiment with it, please note i've never used SetPData before.

[Lexic]

You can't. Either store the variables separately or serialise them.

[Entoros]

Would PData store some of the characters glon uses?

[Crazy Quebec]

[QUOTE=Entoros;18191490]Would PData store some of the characters glon uses?[/QUOTE]

I don't see why it wouldn't store a string.

[Entoros]

It's not that it wouldn't store a string, but some of the box characters that GLON uses to indicate levels of a table aren't stored. I tried using the cookie library (aka sqlite) to store a player's info with glon, but it didn't store it correctly.

[Lexic]

Use JSON then. There's [url=http://www.chipmunkav.com/downloads/Json.lua]this[/url] which I have in my gmod folder for some reason (but the site appears to be down) or [url=json.luaforge.net]this[/url] which apparently does the same thing.

[Entoros]

Just bear in mind that JSON, unlike GLON, can't store objects specific to Gmod (i.e. entities, colors, vectors), so you'll have to store their specific values or their table itself.

[Gbps]

How about I just make a PData like library that saves though GLON and we can all move on with this thread >_<

[Mistur Man]

Yes, please. Thank's everyone for your help, has come in useful.