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On 7/5/2025 9:05 PM, jr wrote:
> hi,
>
> Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglish com> wrote:
>> I have a dictionary in 3.8 and one of the elements is an array.
>> ...
>> And I'm getting an error:
>> Parse Error: Can't nest directives accessing the same file.
>> Is there a way around this? I don't want to have to manually write each
>> element out.
>> I think it requires another macro to convert the .edges element to a
>> string that I can then slap into the #write directive. Is this the only
>> way or am I missing something?
>
> I've been looking at (un)serialising dictionaries using my 'Filed()' macro[*],
> and have not yet found a "good way" for dealing with arrays, especially
> multi-dimensional. I think converting the array to a string, and storing that,
> will work, eg "3.1415:1.23:0.1" for an array of three floats; have a look at my
> 'strSplit()' macro[**] for the unserialising.
>
> [*] <wiki.povray.org/content/User:Jr>
> [**] <news.povray.org/web.64b08576d08f3556b49d80446cde94f1%40news.povray.org>
>
>
> regards, jr.
>
I'll look into it. I've found it's generally easier just to build an
include file that can be imported later than trying to manage
customizing serialization.
Now if POV-Ray 4.0 could read and write JSON or XML, I'd be in heaven,
but I don't think that's in the plans.
Uncle Josh
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