Can it be possible to parse a txt file?

[Ganzo]

Hi,

I'm new to developing WOW addons, and I'm currently having a diffucilty.
In my addon I want to interface with anther application running in windows, for now the only way I could do that is by reading txt files.

Is it possible to open a txt file for parsing?
I tried the following lua code, but it did not work:

function MyAddon_OnLoad()
local f = assert(io.open("my_file.txt", "r"))
local t = f:read("*all")
f:close()
end

Is it possible to open txt files?
Is my code wrong?

Thanks for helping

[Torhal]

WoW's Lua parser is run in a sandbox - there is no File I/O nor networking ability.

[tsadok]

This is not possible because it allows more interactivity with other applications than Blizzard is comfortable with. One thing you could do, before logging in, is save a .lua file to WTF file in the appropriate place, in this format:

MyTextFile = [[
--text file here
]]

and the global MyTextFile will contain the contents of the file (this uses Lua long strings).