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  57. <span id="Include-Operation-1"></span><h3 class="section">2.2 Include Operation</h3>
  58. <p>The &lsquo;<samp>#include</samp>&rsquo; directive works by directing the C preprocessor to
  59. scan the specified file as input before continuing with the rest of the
  60. current file. The output from the preprocessor contains the output
  61. already generated, followed by the output resulting from the included
  62. file, followed by the output that comes from the text after the
  63. &lsquo;<samp>#include</samp>&rsquo; directive. For example, if you have a header file
  64. <samp>header.h</samp> as follows,
  65. </p>
  66. <div class="example">
  67. <pre class="example">char *test (void);
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  69. <p>and a main program called <samp>program.c</samp> that uses the header file,
  70. like this,
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  73. <pre class="example">int x;
  74. #include &quot;header.h&quot;
  75. int
  76. main (void)
  77. {
  78. puts (test ());
  79. }
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  81. <p>the compiler will see the same token stream as it would if
  82. <samp>program.c</samp> read
  83. </p>
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  85. <pre class="example">int x;
  86. char *test (void);
  87. int
  88. main (void)
  89. {
  90. puts (test ());
  91. }
  92. </pre></div>
  93. <p>Included files are not limited to declarations and macro definitions;
  94. those are merely the typical uses. Any fragment of a C program can be
  95. included from another file. The include file could even contain the
  96. beginning of a statement that is concluded in the containing file, or
  97. the end of a statement that was started in the including file. However,
  98. an included file must consist of complete tokens. Comments and string
  99. literals which have not been closed by the end of an included file are
  100. invalid. For error recovery, they are considered to end at the end of
  101. the file.
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  103. <p>To avoid confusion, it is best if header files contain only complete
  104. syntactic units&mdash;function declarations or definitions, type
  105. declarations, etc.
  106. </p>
  107. <p>The line following the &lsquo;<samp>#include</samp>&rsquo; directive is always treated as a
  108. separate line by the C preprocessor, even if the included file lacks a
  109. final newline.
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