Indesign from Illustrator Script

I'd like to automatically open InDesign/InDesign script from an Illustrator script.
There would be some arrays with data that will be passed on to the InDesign script for processing.
I thought that involved #target indesign but that does not seem like what I need to do.
I may just export the values to a txt from Illustrator if there are a lot of bugs in this process and then run the other script manually from InDesign.
Javascript
CS6

Then it seems like I'd like to go the export txt route.
That doesn't seem to be an option through scripting though you can manually do it??
myCSVFileName = "illustratorValues.csv";
myCSVFilePath = "~/desktop/"+ myCSVFileName;
myCSVFile = new File(myCSVFilePath);
myCSVFormat = ExportFormat.textType;
myDoc= app.activeDoc;
myDoc.exportFile(myCSVFile, myCSVFormat);
ExportType.JPEG
ExportType.PHOTOSHOP
ExportType.SVG
ExportType.PNG8
ExportType.PNG24
ExportType.GIF
ExportType.FLASH
ExportType.AUTOCAD
ExportType.TIFF
txt isn't an option like in indesign?

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