API Text

This API provides some more general operations on strings and data serialization into and back from strings.

• text.detab(value: string, tabWidth: number): string
  Converts tabs in a string to spaces, while aligning the tags at the specified tab width. This is used for formatting text in term.write, for example.
• text.padRight(value: string, length: number): string
  Pads a string with whitespace on the right up to the specified length.
• text.padLeft(value: string, length: number): string
  Pads a string with whitespace on the left up to the specified length.
• text.trim(value: string): string
  Removes whitespace characters from the start and end of a string.
• text.serialize(value: any except functions): string
  Generates a string from an object that can be parsed again using text.unserialize. The generated output is essentially Lua code. Supports basic types (nil, boolean, number, string) and tables without cycles (will error out when cycles are detected). Properly handles NaN values and infinity.
  This function can be useful for sending messages via a network card.
• text.unserialize(value: string): any
  Restores an object previously saved with text.serialize.