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Next: <a href="Search-Path.html#Search-Path" accesskey="n" rel="next">Search Path</a>, Previous: <a href="Include-Syntax.html#Include-Syntax" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Include Syntax</a>, Up: <a href="Header-Files.html#Header-Files" accesskey="u" rel="up">Header Files</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index-of-Directives.html#Index-of-Directives" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Include-Operation-1"></a>
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<h3 class="section">2.2 Include Operation</h3>
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<p>The ‘<samp>#include</samp>’ directive works by directing the C preprocessor to
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scan the specified file as input before continuing with the rest of the
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current file. The output from the preprocessor contains the output
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already generated, followed by the output resulting from the included
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file, followed by the output that comes from the text after the
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‘<samp>#include</samp>’ directive. For example, if you have a header file
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<samp>header.h</samp> as follows,
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<p>and a main program called <samp>program.c</samp> that uses the header file,
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<p>Included files are not limited to declarations and macro definitions;
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those are merely the typical uses. Any fragment of a C program can be
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included from another file. The include file could even contain the
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beginning of a statement that is concluded in the containing file, or
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the end of a statement that was started in the including file. However,
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an included file must consist of complete tokens. Comments and string
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literals which have not been closed by the end of an included file are
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invalid. For error recovery, they are considered to end at the end of
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the file.
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</p>
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<p>To avoid confusion, it is best if header files contain only complete
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syntactic units—function declarations or definitions, type
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declarations, etc.
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<p>The line following the ‘<samp>#include</samp>’ directive is always treated as a
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