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Not bad.. I was playing with bdecode/bencode recently (implemented them in elisp, fun) ..

A comment or two: Your code actually only encodes/decodes lists and dictionaries, it will completely ignore single values, eg it wont parse "4:spam" at all. You also have the string/integer parsing code in there twice. You can solve both of these in one go by making the main if (substr(${$dictref},0,1) eq "d") { statement also do strings and integers, and recursing when encountering these inside the dictionary/hash, instead of parsing them on the spot.

Ditto the encoding.

Pretty nifty all the same :)

In reply to Re: serialise/unserialising data structures by castaway
in thread serialise/unserialising data structures by monoxide

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