[Gambas-user] Serialization

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi!
> I spotted these lines from svn log:
> 
> [INTERPRETER]
> * NEW: The READ instruction can read arrays and collections with
>   'AS Object' as well as 'AS Variant'.
> 
> [INTERPRETER]
> * NEW: WRITE and READ instructions can handle collections and arrays. Call
>   that "serialization".
> 
> 
> Can you give me example how this works?
> Example, I have two dimensional arrays, how do I read them from file with
> this new way?
> 
> Jussi

Bad luck, it works for single dimension arrays only.

It works like that:

	Dim MyArray As String[]
	
	' Write the array to a stream
	Write #Stream, MyArray As Object
	
	' Read it back later
	MyArray = Read #Stream As Object

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini