LUA network game, protocol

[CheChin]

With VB and C i have just used types/structs to build the package and send off the whole thing as a string. Then when i recieve it, i just pop it back into the same type/struct and i'm done.

Do anyone have some suggestion on how i should do this in lua?
You can't just fill a table, and send it off as "text" can you?
I need the package building/handling to be fairly fast too.

Anyone?

[LuMo]

i guess we discussed this yesterday in irc?
implode/explode function on my webpage should solve this.
greets
lumo
PS: table --> string and vice versa