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- <h3 class="section">2.2 Include Operation</h3>
- <p>The ‘<samp>#include</samp>’ directive works by directing the C preprocessor to
- scan the specified file as input before continuing with the rest of the
- current file. The output from the preprocessor contains the output
- already generated, followed by the output resulting from the included
- file, followed by the output that comes from the text after the
- ‘<samp>#include</samp>’ directive. For example, if you have a header file
- <samp>header.h</samp> as follows,
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- <p>Included files are not limited to declarations and macro definitions;
- those are merely the typical uses. Any fragment of a C program can be
- included from another file. The include file could even contain the
- beginning of a statement that is concluded in the containing file, or
- the end of a statement that was started in the including file. However,
- an included file must consist of complete tokens. Comments and string
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