How do you let the system know that these bricks are a dictionary?

[Sarvon]

[Kumaraswamy]

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[Sarvon]

These bricks returned an error because File 1 returns a text instead of a dictionary.

[Ramon]

Check this:

Requesting a feature [Related to dictionaries](How to save/retrieve a dictionary from a File)

Is it possible to save a dictionary in a file and then retrieve the data back. I know that in File component data is saved as text and read as text also. For list I can use ListToCSV and CSVToList to save and read through a file but for dictionary I dont know. Please provide a method to do that

[Anke]

[Sarvon]

Yes, it replied false.

[Sarvon]

Another one does too.

[Ramon]

have you tried this?

[ABG]

Learn JSON

[Kevinkun]

Make a Dictionary will return a Dictionary.
But you connect it with File.SaveFile, the text socket need a String, AI will change Dictionary to String/JSON.
When you read from the file, you will get a String, you need to use Web.JsonTextDecode to convert String/JSON to dictionary.

[patel]

Why not use a csv for read write and convert csv to dictionary when needed ?