Reading project tabs & data broken?

Questions
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Long story short, I’m working at one last attempt in an auto-updater for Codeler, and I needed to temporarily store raw gist data in a string, because since http.request uses separate functions for successes I can’t just return it normally. I tried creating a global variable called RAWGISTTEMP, saving it as the raw gist data, then outside of the http.request functions saying

local rawdata = RAWGISTTEMP
RAWGISTTEMP = nil
return rawdata.

For some reason RAWGISTTEMP was an empty string. I tried it with project data, and the same happened. I tried saving it in a tab, too. For some reason it wasn’t deleting the tab when it was done, but I also noticed it saved it correctly. I tried readProjectTab(“RAWGISTTEMP”) and it was an empty string. I have no idea why, but everything I try to access returns an empty string, even when I can see it’s not. Help?

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My $0.05: i read you save:
a global variable called RAWGISTTEMP.
And when you read
readProjectTab(“RAWGISTDATA”) and it was an empty string.
What about using the same name for save and read?

3

Oops, I accidentally wrote it as RAWGISTDATA. I meant to say RAWGISTTEMP, the code uses the same. Updated post

4

@SkyTheCoder check The updated AutoGist. I just added an option to add an updater checker to your project.

5

@SkyTheCoder maybe you should just share the code so someone can check if there is a simple obvious mistake? That can of things happen often, not being able to see an obvious error because it is too obvious.