Comment on Can anyone tell me what format this uh.. nested dictionary is?

• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  assuming you run it in the right lua environment. The item function must be defined, and we’re only assuming stuff about its return value without seeing proper docs, or the source

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Item is a function?

    Well actually, yeah thats kinda obvious isn’t it now I look at the whole thing.

    Thats fine, I’ll just use a bit of the old sed and json it.

    Aha I have avoided learning Lua yet again!

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the code is constructing a table, and passing it to a function called item. But if all you need is the data, you can just remove the function call and assign the table to a variable like so: local myvar = {…}.

      then you can just manipulate the table as usual.

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      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        actually those semicolons indicate this isn’t actually lua, they are invalid in table constructors afaik

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      • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unfortunately, this sequence is repeated many many times, so I would need to do a for-each and construct a new table for each inner section…

        There’s gotta be a better way. Time to read the source code and hijack whatever item() is doing.

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