How to load dictionary

[rain holly]

I have a dictionary file that looks like this, and i want a dictionary in my game to turn into this file.

The keys to the dictionary are random, they arent always a, b, and/or c

And so are the values

[placid otter]

That looks like JSON, you can use JSON.parse_string(String) to get a Dictionary from it

If you want to then serialize that Dictionary using JSON, you can do JSON.stringify(Variant) to put it all on one line, or JSON.stringify(Variant, "\t") to add indents

[rain holly]

Thank you so much!

I`ll see if i can get that to work

[rain holly]

For some reason, it`s not working @placid otter

[wicked forge]

I believe your error is because what's returned by FileAccess.open is a FileAccess object, and not the actual file contents

you can try ScoreKeeper.leaderboard = JSON.parse_string(file.get_as_text())

FileAccess.open -> https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_fileaccess.html#class-fileaccess-method-open

FileAccess.get_as_text -> https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_fileaccess.html#class-fileaccess-method-get-as-text

[rain holly]

Fixed. Here`s final code

[wicked forge]

Now...I'd like to point out to something...I believe a file in res:// namespace wouldn't be able to be written on export (I can be wrong here). I'd advice some research but I believe a file you intend to write later should be in user://

[rain holly]

Already a comment about that

[wicked forge]

OPS LoL...sorry, I completely ignored it 🙂

[placid otter]

By the way, .bin files are normally raw binary, not plaintext. I suggest using .json or .save or some other file extension

[rain holly]

Is there anything bad that can happen if i continue to use bin