loading from love filesystem issue

[DarkShroom]

sorry to ask this but i have done quite a few googles and no-one seems to have the same issue, i can't seem to load my saved file:

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filename = 'save.txt'
if love.filesystem.exists(filename) then
    print('FOUND SAVE FILE!')
    print(love.filesystem.load(filename))
else
    print('NO SAVE FILE!')
end
love.filesystem.write(filename, 'this is my text string' )

the demo code there, run once saves my file just fine

run again, it does not want to load the file! I get:

FOUND SAVE FILE!
Error: main.lua:9: Syntax error: save.txt:1: '=' expected near 'make'

stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'load'
main.lua:9: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'require'
[string "boot.lua"]:429: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:275>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[Finished in 3.3s with exit code 1]

Can anyone help? I have tried updating Love 2D.... It's pretty damn fundamental this bug! For my saves

[zorg]

You do know that love.filesystem.load loads in lua source code, right?
You probably want to open the file, and iterate through the lines, since it's a text file.

[DarkShroom]

oh right, i didn't know that

i assumed it saved like the normal lua way... do you have a link at all to just how to save a plain string?

i just want to save json myself that's all

[bartbes]

If you just want one string containing all of the file's contents you can just use love.filesystem.read. Alternatively, if you want to iterate over all lines, there is love.filesystem.lines. Lastly, if you need something more complex you can create a File object and read it that way.

[grump]

Alternatively, if you want to iterate over all lines, there is love.filesystem.lines.

love.filesystem.lines is extremely slow when loading from a love file. Avoid it if you want to read large files.

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local i = 0
for line in love.filesystem.lines("manylines.txt") do i = i + 1 end
print(i .. " lines")
love.event.quit()

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$ time love test
32768 lines

real	0m0.382s
user	0m0.132s
sys	0m0.104s

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$ time love test.love
32768 lines

real	0m55.186s
user	0m55.180s
sys	0m0.484s

[DarkShroom]

thanks so much

yeah i just needed the "read" function... i was finding that very strange, i get it "load" for code, "read" for text

how i didn't spot that when it's the same wording as the lua functions i don't know... i don't really use lines type functions anyway thanks for the info