data files

Read from data file

local file = {} -- Create a variable in which it will be stored
-- Here we are loading the file with the path, the mode "t" (Only text chunks.) and out variable in which we will load the config
local f,err = loadfile("path/to/file", "t", file) -- load the file
if f then
   f() -- run the chunk
   -- now file should now contain our data
   print(file.variable) -- table
else
   print(err)
end

Write to data file

-- config_writer
-- file: the file to write in
-- name: name of the whole module
-- config: the config module
function config_writer(file, name, config)
    -- Write start of config 
    file:write(name .. " = {\n")

    -- Go through all config fields
    for key, value in pairs(config) do
        file:write(key .. "=" .. "\"" .. value .. "\"" .. ",\n")
    end

    -- End the config
    file:write("}\n")
end