From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Serializing Lisp Objects
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:25:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cab4hn4i2.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 807d1fcc-cf08-43a8-af49-2049522ae17d@k20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com
Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:
> How do I serialize (encode) and unserialize (decode) an arbitrary
> elisp object (code or data) to and from disk/network etc?
(defun encode-to-string (object) (prin1-to-string object))
(defun decode-from-string (string) (read-from-string string))
Now, of course, this works only for objects that are printable
readably.
> Can I use other format than the symbolic one?
Yes, but you will have to implement the serializer yourself.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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2009-06-08 18:05 Serializing Lisp Objects Nordlöw
2009-06-09 9:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
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