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Re: Serializing Lisp Objects


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Serializing Lisp Objects
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:25:09 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

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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