How to read .txt file on your server and pass information to LUA?

Question

Lua

How to read .txt file on your server and pass information to LUA?
For example, to check for updates to the lua script.
1. Reading a .txt file on a website
2. Passing information to lua
3. Outputting information to lua

Answer 1

Website via php? If yes then look towards shell_exec with parameters . Let's say php > (ReadTxtFile -> shell_exec("lua sc.lua ")), inside lua
for i, v in pairs(arg) do print(i, v) end