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How to save a struct to INI?

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IJsandwich

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I've never used structs so I'm working with one to store some key info for my game; in this struct will be a number of very small ds grids (right now it's just one). I've also only ever written data structures to ini files, so I don't know how to save a whole struct containing data structures. How can I save this struct? Will I need to "open" the struct and save the grids individually? Will it be better to use arrays instead of small grids?

Also, keep in mind that I am kind of testing the waters with this struct/grid system. If this seems like a bad move or you have a better idea please let me know.
 
nacho_chicken

nacho_chicken

Member
Don't use INI. Use JSON. The format is comparable to how structs are laid out, making it infinitely more useful than INI.

Asset - Scripts - JSON Struct: Use structs and arrays to work with JSON

JSON Struct Bringing out the true potential of JSON parsing in GMS 2.3+ Overview This library allows encoding and decoding JSON as structs, arrays and other first-order data types as of GMS 2.3. In addition to standard encoding and decoding functions, it also contains utilities for encryption...
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