ArrayEncode/Decode broken??

[J. Landman Gay]

I made the same mistake a while ago, until I remembered that the encoded 
array is binary. You have to write and read it to/from a binary file. If 
you just use "open file" you get text only.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On March 18, 2022 6:40:40 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I'm running 9.6.7 rc2. I have this code in a closeStackRequest handler:
>
>   put the settings of me into tSettingsA
>   put field "fldEAFilePath" into tSettingsA ["eafilepath"]
>   put field "fldInvFilePath" into tSettingsA ["invfilepath"]
>   put field "fldOutFilePath" into tSettingsA ["Outfilepath"]
>   put the dgText [true] of group "dgVariance" into tSettingsA ["gridtext"]
>   put arrayEncode(tSettingsA) into tSettingsText
>   put the filename of this stack into tSettingsPath
>   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
>   put "settings.prefs" into item -1 of tSettingsPath
>   open file tSettingsPath for write
>   write tSettingsText to file tSettingsPath
>   close file tSettingsPath
>
> Then in the openStack handler I have this:
>
>   put the filename of this stack into tSettingsPath
>   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
>   put "settings.prefs" into item -1 of tSettingsPath
>   open file tSettingsPath for read
>   read from file tSettingsPath until eof
>   put it after tSettingsText
>   close file tSettingsPath
>   put arrayDecode(tSettingsText) into tSettingsA
>   set the settings of me to tSettingsA
>
> Instead of an array, I get the text "gr" which is the first 2 characters of 
> the key "grid text" in the array. That can't be right!
>
> Bob S
>
>
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