Include

Syntax

#include “file path”

Arguments

“file path” can be either the absolutely path or the relative path of a file.

Details

Statement #include imports users’ scripts. It cannot be used in a console.

Examples

The example below shows how the script “GetTable.txt” imports a script called “GenTradeTable.txt” that is located in the directory “D:/test/”.

The content of GenTradeTable.txt:

$ n=2000
$ syms=`YHOO`GE`MS`MSFT`JPM`ORCL`CISCO
$ timestamp=09:30:00+rand(18000, n)
$ sym=rand(syms, n)
$ qty=100*(1+rand(100,n))
$ price=5.0+rand(100.0, n)
$ t1=table(timestamp,sym,qty,price);

The content of GetTable.txt:

$ #include "D:/test/GenTradeTable.txt"
$ t1;

Execute the following statement:

$ run "GetTable.txt";

timestamp	sym	qty	price
12:19:25	YHOO	9500	93.307309
11:02:57	GE	8400	52.797873
10:04:09	CISO	1700	57.467623
12:01:23	JPM	8300	70.12557
14:22:02	MS	7900	44.220769
…