Turn string into table

[Neplioz]

1. What do you want to achieve? Hello, i have a string like this : {Type = “Test”, Amount = 20} and i want to turn it into a table like that

{
Type = "Test",
Amount = 20
}

2. What is the issue? I can’t find how to do it

3. What solutions have you tried so far? I looked on forums but what i found there put numbers in front of the Type and Amount

[wastbo (DanCodes)]

It would be easiest if the string was encoded as JSON because you can use HttpService and turn it into a table

[Neplioz]

How can i turn the string into JSON?

[Neplioz]

Like this?

{
"Type": "Test",
"Amount": = 20
}

[UIScript]

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local myTable = {
	Type = "Test",
	Amount = 20
}

local myTableEncoded: string = HttpService:JSONEncode(myTable)
print(myTableEncoded)
-- {"Amount":20,"Type":"Test"}

local myTableDecoded: typeof(myTable) = HttpService:JSONDecode(myTableEncoded)
print(myTableDecoded)
-- {
--     ["Amount"] = 20,
--     ["Type"] = "Test"
-- }

[Neplioz]

I use GameAnalytics RemoteConfigs for the system i am doing and basically it returns the string like {"Type": = "Neutrons","Amount": = 20} but when i try to decode directly it says it can’t parse JSON

[UIScript]

I don’t really use that, but I can say It’s not returning a proper JSON format for some reason (keeping the = operator). If it’s absolutely not returning a proper json, you can always string.gsub to replace that pattern.

local response: string -- your returned string
response = string.sub(response, " = ", "")

[Neplioz]

Well i can control a bit what it returns, what i told it to return is {"Type": = "Neutrons","Amount": = 20} and it return it as a string, so what do i do with the string.sub response, do i put it in the JSONDecode?

[UIScript]

Yeah then it should be a proper table. Problem is that the string being returned is not a proper JSON (with extra " = "). Of course, it’d be better if you returned a proper JSON in the first place instead of a malformed one to avoid any unwanted regex operations.

[Neplioz]

Oh wait i just found the issue, your JSONDecode was working good, it was just that i typed the table wrong in GameAnalytics, thank you!