Loading spawn point from file

I have a single player game.

In my game I am using triggers for 'checkpoints'. When you hit a trigger, I am writing a line like this to file:

$savedata::transform = "456.385 302.441 220.923 0 0 1 2.69064";

My save file is called 'save2.cs'.

So if you die, when you respawn, you should respawn at $savedata::transform.

So how do I load this data back in dynamically?
In game.cs I have tried to hook it right into the respawn function, since its a single player game.

At the beginning of game.cs I do
exec("./../../client/save2.cs");

then I do

function GameConnection::spawnPlayer(%this)
{
   %spawnPoint = pickSpawnPoint();
     
                      //old code
                      //%this.createPlayer(%spawnPoint);
   %newspawn=$savedata::transform; 
   %this.createPlayer(%newspawn);
   
}

It's not working....it's not spawning the player at the check point, but even it it did,
that's no good, because I need it to always read from the file to decide on the new spawn point each time.

I tried to EXEC the save2.cs file inside of the spawnPlayer function, but that's not working either, and I also did not know if its wise or safe to exec a file inside of a function like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.