@loadvalue(*file*:string)
read a file produced by a call to the function @savevalue and returns the value that was saved. If something goes wrong, an undefined value is returned. See also function @loadvar for an example and the related functions @dumpvar and @dump.

A call to this function may take a noticeable time depending on the size of the values to store in the dump file. While this time is usually negligible, loading a tab of 10000 integers represents a file of size about 60Kb and takes between 2ms and 3ms. This computational cost may have a negative impact on the audio processing in heavy cases. However, the intended use of and functions is to restore a “preset” at isolated places like the beginning of the score (see eval_when_load clauses) or between musical sequences, a usage where this cost should have no impact. Notice that saving a value or variables is done asynchronously and does not disturb the “main” computation. See the remarks of function @dump.


See Data Exchange Functions: @dump    @dumpvar    @gnuplot    @json_read    @json_string    @json_write    @loadvalue    @loadvar    @nim2vezer    @parse    @plot    @read_file    @rplot    @savevalue    @set_osc_handling_double    @set_osc_handling_int64    @set_osc_handling_tab    @string2fun    @string2obj    @string2proc    @to_num    @xml_read    @xml_string