Reading and writing variable or arrays in text format for later use

Processing Coding Questions
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As the title suggests, whats the best method for doing this?

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saveStrings and loadStrings

Or saveTable and loadTable

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3

Does this require extra libraries or is it pre-included?

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That’s for writing on your hard drive

Do you mean this? Or just storing during you run the sketch?

It’s included. See reference

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Saving to disk, thanks shall check it out, is the Java native BufferedWriter an improvement over this method in any way in terms of speed, or are they pretty comparable?

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I don’t know

It’s fast enough

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See the reference page

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When in doubt, test, as differences in performance if any may depend a lot on your use case (e.g. many small files vs. one huge file, etc.). saveTable has a lot of data processing overhead – although for most application that doesn’t matter, as these things are still quite fast – while saveStrings is close to native. You can also pass saveStrings an OutputStream if you wish.

In the JavaDoc:

http://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/core/PApplet.html#saveStrings-java.io.File-java.lang.String:A-

In the source:

While saveTable opens a File and then passes from PApplet:

to the Table object save method:

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