lua convert userdata to string

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I'm trying to print out some userdata as a string, but the documentation for lua pretty weak to nonexistant. How do I convert a userdata variable to a string so that I can write it to a file?

FareakyGnome · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-23 11:09:05Z

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tostring(userdata)

Creator of that userdata must provide __tostring metamethod.

answered Jul 23, 2016 at 11:09

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Vyacheslav Napadovsky Over a year ago

agreed. Or you'll get just userdata: 0xdeadbeef if that metamethod wasn't specified.

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