Comment on Can anyone tell me what format this uh.. nested dictionary is?
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 year agoItem 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!
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
actually those semicolons indicate this isn’t actually lua, they are invalid in table constructors afaik
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 year 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.