Given a yaml-like file containing key-value pairs like this: 1 2 3 key1: value1 key2: value2 key3: value3 The following function will load it and return the data as a Lua table. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 function read_yaml_file(filename) local file = io.open(filename, "r") if not file then return nil, "Failed to open file: " .. filename end local data = {} for line in file:lines() do local key, value = line:match("(%w+):%s*(.