От: Hub's Big Ass Bot, От темы с ID: 135

function loadtext(filename)
    local message = ""
    local f = io.open( filename, "r" )
    if f then
        message=f:read("*all")
-- just a fake $)
        if message == nil then
            message="|"
        end

        message=string.gsub(message,"|","")
--        message=string.gsub(message,"\n","\r\n")
        f:close()
    end
    return message
end