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[HotPieOnARack]

I wrote a Lua block in a code injection script which parses a JSON file ( contains some configuration) from Disk and then it does update values, depending on some pointer data and the config.

It's working great but I dislike its loading the file each time the code is triggered. So I wondered if there is a way to store the JSON string somehow and only load the file, if the JSON string is not stored yet.

I noticed there is a method
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writeStringLocal
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But I didn't quite understand if this is meant for my use case? Can I use this method for storing big strings?

Also I did not understand how this address thing works. Is it safe to write to any address like [code]writeStringLocal("00400500", JsonString)[/code] or could this memory address be in use already?

Sincerely
Pie

[atom0s]

Just read the file into a local variable and check that variable if it's got any data anytime you need to use the information. If not, then reload, if yes, then use what's already loaded.

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