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 incorporated 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”.
Additionally, the directory “shared” under “Scripts” is checked too. So if you want to reference a file in the “shared” directory, you can reference it by its name without any explicit pathname.