Best way to save a 3D array?

I'm writing a plugin where i need to save a 3D array (of ints for the material data and bytes for the data values for an area of blocks) and I need to save the arrays to a file which can be read back into the plugin when it is started again. The problem is I'm not sure what is the best method to do this. Can anyone give me some suggestions?

Thanks,
Bowman3002

 

@bowman3002
http://wiki.bukkit.org/Introduction_to_the_New_Configuration
You may just have to store than as lists in yaml then reconstruct the array afterwards.

a 3D array is really an Array of Arrays of Arrays.
In turn store it as a List of Lists of Lists.

 

You could save it like this in a custom config file:

Code:

Array1:
    Array1-1:
        Array1-1-1:
            1
            2
            3
        Array1-1-2:
            4
            5
            6
        Array1-1-3:
            7
            8
            9
    Array1-2:
        Array1-2-1:
            1
            2
            3
        Array1-2-2:
            4
            5
            6
        Array1-2-3:
            7
            8
            9
//etc...