Does ChucK a method of writing and reading ints, floats or strings from a file? The documentation

only includes WvIn and WvOut for file I/O.

I hacked a technique for sending data by scaling it to values -1.0 to 1.0 and sending it to a sound file:

//WRITE1.ck//

// write values to file

Step x => WvOut file => blackhole;
"data" => file.sndFilename;
float n;
for (int ii; ii<20; ii++)
{
ii/20.0 => n;
<<< n >>>;
n => x.next;
1::samp => now;
}

file.closeFile();

These values can then be read sequentially with WvIn:

//READ1.ck//

WvIn w => blackhole;
"data.snd" => w.path;
float n;

repeat(20)
{
1::samp => now;
w.last() => n;
<<< n >>>;
}

But I don't get exactly the same values returned; ie, I try to store the value 0.500000 but when read,

I get 0.500015. That's a significant variance.

Does anyone know where this variance comes from, or how to get around it? And is this the only way

to store and read data? What about strings from files?

Joel