GameState = {}

-- Supply the table then the name of the table in string format
function GameState.save(tbl)
  saved_table = print_table(tbl)
	return saved_table
end

function GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)
	-- placeholder is the name of our placeholder variable
	-- so we can do things like "actors = GameState.load"
	love.filesystem.load(SAVE_FILE)() -- Load and run the file
	return placeholder
end

function printf (s, ...)
	return io.write(s:format(...))
end

function print_table(tbl, table_name, only_once)
	if only_once == nil then
		table_name = "placeholder"
		printf("local %s = { ", table_name)
		saved_table = table_name .. " = { "
	end
	for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
		if type(value) == "table" then
			printf("%s = { ",key)
			saved_table = saved_table .. key .. " = { "
			print_table(value, table_name, true)
			printf("}, ")
			saved_table = saved_table .. "}, "
		end
		if type (value) ~= "table" then
			if type(value) == "string" then
				printf("%s = \"%s\", ", key, value)
				saved_table = saved_table .. key .. " = \"" .. value .. "\", "
			else
				printf("%s = %d, ", key, value)
				saved_table = saved_table .. key .. " = " .. value .. ", "
			end
		end
	end
	if only_once == nil then
		printf("}")
		saved_table = saved_table .. "}"
	end
	return saved_table
end

-- Counts contents of tables of tables as well
function tablelength(tbl, count)
	local count = count or 0
	
	for key, value in pairs(tbl) do
		if type(value) == "table" then
			count = tablelength(value, count)
		end
		count = count + 1 
	end
	return count
end