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Re: loading hash-table from a file?
From: |
Teemu Likonen |
Subject: |
Re: loading hash-table from a file? |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:11:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
* 2012-01-05T10:35:18+02:00 * Valentin Baciu wrote:
> In my Emacs 24, I can read back a printed (simple) hash table. I am
> not sure weather using more complex data types as values will also
> work.
>
> ;; Writing the hash table to a "database" file
>
> (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect "/tmp/x")
> (let ((h (make-hash-table)))
> (puthash 'a 0 h)
> (puthash 'b 1 h)
> (insert (format "%s" h))
> (save-buffer)))
Use the %S format character to print objects in machine-readable (i.e.,
READ) format.