Can C# communicate with javascript?

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Hi all, i have previously ask regarding writing data to text file and reading from text file. Mostly is written in C#. So i decide to use C# to code the write data to file. All along i am using javascript for the games. So now i am asking whether javascript and C# can communicate with each other? I create a static array in javascript. So what my C# need to do is to get the data from my js file and then write to the file. Any ideas how i can do it? or the task is impossible?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

public class Monitor : MonoBehaviour {
	
	String path;
	String fileName;
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () 
	{
		fileName = "/Monitoring.txt";
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () 
	{
		path = Application.dataPath + fileName;
		
		using(FileStream fs = File.Create(path))
		{
			AddText(fs, "hello");
			AddText(fs, "______________________________________________");
			AddText(fs, "

and this is on a new line");
AddText(fs, "

The following is a subset of characters:
");
}
}

	private static void AddText(FileStream fs, string value)
    {
        byte[] info = new UTF8Encoding(true).GetBytes(value);
        fs.Write(info, 0, info.Length);
    }
	
}

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An easy way to transfer such data between C# and JS scripts is to put it in a class in Standard Assets. These are built before the normal scripts, and are then available as .NET libraries to both languages. E.g. if this is a C# script in Standard Assets:

public static class DataStore
{
   public static byte[] SomeData { get; set; }
}

Then in any C# or JS scripts outside Standard Assets (or in C# scripts in Standard Assets), DataStore.SomeData is an accessible property. You can then use SendMessage or some other means to trigger each script to read/write it when appropriate.