data = [[ ]] -- Open the file in write mode local file = io.open("id pw.txt", "w") for line in data:gmatch("[^\r\n]+") do local words = {} for word in line:gmatch("[^|]+") do table.insert(words, word) end if #words >= 2 then local first_word = words[1] local second_word = words[2] -- Write the extracted first and second words to the file print(first_word .. ":" .. second_word .. "\n") end end