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4.10 Miscellaneous

The remainder of this chapter covers a few additional syntactic elements that didn't fit into any of the previous sections.

• #INCLUDE statement
• #EXIT statement
• #QUIT statement

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4.10.1 #INCLUDE statement

Everywhere within an EDL script one can include another EDL file. This is done using the #INCLUDE keyword, followed by the name of the file to be included, and has the same effect as if the file to be included had been pasted into the current EDL script, replacing the line with the #INCLUDE statement. Included files themselves may contain further #INCLUDE statements, up to 16 levels deep.

The name of the file to be included must follow the #INCLUDE directly (i.e. on the same line and only with spaces and tab characters in between). It must be enclosed either in double quotes (i.e. it must have the form "...") or in angle braces ('<' and '>', i.e. have the form <...>).

If the file name is enclosed in double quotes fsc2 tries to figure out the location where it is stored according to the following rules:

• If the name starts with a slash, '/', it is assumed that the file is given with a complete, absolute path.
• If the file name starts with a tilde followed directly by a slash, i.e. with "~/", the tilde is replaced by the name of the users home directory.
• If the file name starts with any other character its path is taken to be relative to the path of the file it is included from.

If the file name is enclosed in < and > a default include directory compiled into fsc2 will prepended to the file name, whatever the name of the file is. If no default directory has been compiled into fsc2 an error message is printed and interpretation of the script stops.

If the file to be included can't be opened an error message is printed and interpretation of the EDL script is abandoned.

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4.10.2 #EXIT statement

When the #EXIT statement is found in an EDL script this is equivalent to the end of the file - everything following the statement is discarded. In the main file of an EDL script this signifies the end of the EDL script. If the file containing the #EXIT statement is an included file (see the #INCLUDE statement above) fsc2 will immediately return to reading the file the file was included from.

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4.10.3 #QUIT statement

When the #QUIT statement is encountered in an EDL script fsc2 treats this as the end of the EDL script and won't read any further lines. In the main file of an EDL this is equivalent to the #EXIT statement. But within an included EDL file #EXIT will induce fsc2 to return to the including file while #QUIT makes fsc2 stop completely, i.e. it will not even return to higher level EDL files.

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