Overview

prettydump is a Lua module for pretty printing Lua values, especially tables. All data types are handled, though some write themselves out as comments (such as functions, userdata, and threads).

prettydump is derived from former LuaPlus versions that had built-in pretty printing support. In the LuaPlus nextgen branch, that pretty printing support has been largely removed.

Depending on setup (whether LuaPlus is the driving engine), the prettydump module goes to great lengths to not modify any of the internal Lua state.

Example

    local prettydump = require 'prettydump'

    local myTable = {
        Name = 'Joe',
        HitPoints = 100,
    }

    prettydump.dumpascii('output.lua', 'myTable', myTable)