Chapter 8: preprocessing, 8 preprocessing, Hapter – Teledyne LeCroy FireInspector - File Based Decoding User Manual

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CATC S

CRIPTING

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ANGUAGE

1.0

C

HAPTER

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Reference Manual

Preprocessing

C

HAPTER

8: P

REPROCESSING

The preprocessing command

%include

can be used to insert the contents of a file

into a script. It has the effect of copying and pasting the file into the code. Using

%include

allows the user to create modular script files that can then be incorpo-

rated into a script. This way, commands can easily be located and reused.

The syntax for

%include

is this:

%include “includefile.inc”

The quotation marks around the filename are required, and by convention, the
included file has a

.inc

extension.

The filenames given in the include directive are always treated as being relative to
the current file being parsed. So, if a file is referenced via the preprocessing
command in a .dec file, and no path information is provided (

%include

“file.inc”

), the application will try to load the file from the current directory.

Files that are in a directory one level up from the current file can be referenced using

“..\file.inc”

, and likewise, files one level down can be referenced using the

relative pathname (

“directory\file.inc”

). Last but not least, files can also

be referred to using a full pathname, such as

“C:\global_scripts\include\file.inc”

.

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