[stackoverflow] [progress Openedge Abl] How To Check If A File Is Already Included?

[Ashton Woods]

I have a procedure structure like this:

<someprocedure.p>
<randomCode>
<INCLUDE standardIncludeFile.i>
</someprocedure>


The standardIncludeFile.i-include file can be used with any procedure files. However, it requires other include files to work. F.ex. stantarderror.i and standardconstants.i.

If the someprocedure.p already has included these 2 files, they shouldn't be included in the standardIncludeFile.i. If they're not, they should be included in the standardIncludeFile.i.

Can I use DEFINED inside the standardIncludeFile.i to check if those .i-files are already included in the someprocedure.p?

If I use INCLUDE anyway without any conditions, the Eclipse Open-Edge editor gives me the setting to include once, but I'm not sure if that's a good way. The files are compiled on the server for production, anyway.

Currently stantarderror.i or standardconstants.i do not contain any GLOBAL-DEFINED constants, so I cannot check them that way with DEFINED.

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