macro definition containing #include directive

Question

Is there a way to define a macro that contains a #include directive in its body?

If I just put the \"#include\", it gives the error

Answer 1

I believe the C/C++ preprocessor only does a single pass over the code, so I don't think that would work. You might be able to get a "#include" to be placed in the code by the macro, but the compiler would choke on it, since it doesn't know what to do with that. For what you're trying to do to work the preprocessor would have to do a second pass over the file in order to pick up the #include.