title: How can I include a data file at compile time?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1246301/c-c-can-you-include-a-file-into-a-string-literal">C/C++, can you #include a file into a string literal?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have several data files that will be used as a strings in my program. I want to avoid the extra overhead of reading in the files at runtime. </p>
  
  <p>I could hard code them all in but I much prefer to keep them in separate files. </p>
  
  <p>I could included them but then I would need to enclose them with quotation marks and add "\" for every new line (and since this data is GLSL source it messes up the syntax highlighting). </p>
  
  <p>Any Ideas?</p>