Serializing Data

Questions & Answers
1

How do I serialize an array of characters to a file? The whole reason I’m doing it is so that you can’t just open up the file and edit the data but what I’m about to tell you shows otherwise. I create an array of characters and set arr[0] to ‘a’, arr[1] to ‘b’, and arr[2] to ‘c’. I then use .NET to serialize the array. I run it, open it and the file and it looks like this:
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As stated above I don’t want someone to just open up the file and edit the data but this clearly shows it’s possible.

Script:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

public class derp : MonoBehaviour{
    public char[] arr = new char[3];

	void Start(){
        arr[0] = 'a';
        arr[1] = 'b';
        arr[2] = 'c';

        FileStream stream = new FileStream(Application.dataPath+"/testing.wld", FileMode.Create);
        BinaryFormatter bFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();

        bFormatter.Serialize(stream, arr);
        stream.Close();
	}
}

How do I fix this? Thanks.

2

Maybe you should try this approach Joys of Serialization…. in Unity….