local esouixml = io.open('esouixml.txt', 'r') local xmlstring = esouixml:read("*a") local working2 = io.open("ESOXML.lua", "w+") esouixml:seek('set') local keywordstring ="" for keyword in xmlstring:gmatch("%b%*%*") do keywordstring = keywordstring .. keyword end working2:write(keywordstring) working2:flush() working2:close()