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spickle

Definition: spickle(table intab) -> string
Description:
Converts a table into a string roughly of the format "value","value",{"tablevalue","tablevalue";tablekey="value"};key="value",key="value"
Arguments:
intab input table
Returns:
The spickled string
Example:
Given table blah with index 1 and 3 containing strings, index 2 containing an empty table, key "apple" containing the string "orange", and key fulltable containing a table with two ints and a string

spickle(blah) returns "string1",{},"string2";apple="orange",fulltable={3,4,"string3"}