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serialize ( array )
serialize ( { x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3 ... } )

returns string_expression

The serialize statement creates a string that encodes the dimensions, types, and values in an array. The Unserialize function will take a “serialized” string and return an array or list.

Often developers will create a serialized string so that they may save the values in an array into a data file or a database table.

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