# Including a File Defined in Variable

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-a-file-defined-in-variable/185845>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 17, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-a-file-defined-in-variable/185845 "2006-04-17T01:59:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![McGuffin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mcguffin/32/408_2.png) [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-a-file-defined-in-variable/185845/1 "2006-04-17T01:59:21Z")

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More help needed, yay 🙂

```auto

//pageResult_lv.returnedType is loaded from MySQL database
//for our purposes here, that doesn't matter
var pageResult_lv.returnedType = "Staticpage";
var fetchPage = "page/"+pageResult_lv.returnedType+".as"; // outputs page/Staticpage.as
#include fetchPage
//
// **Error** Malformed #include directive: #include fetchPage

```

Is there any way at all I can define the file I need loaded in a variable and include the file that way? The only other way I can think around this issue is incredibly labour intensive and takes me places I really don’t want to go (like dynamically writting script heavy AS files using PHP, no fun).

PS. There seems to be an error in how this forum displays #include’s

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**Author:** ![McGuffin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mcguffin/32/408_2.png) [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-a-file-defined-in-variable/185845/2 "2006-04-17T04:49:31Z")

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Any ideas gentlemen? This is killing me.

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-a-file-defined-in-variable/185845/3 "2006-04-17T05:31:29Z")

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_#include_ is a compiler directive meaning that the AS file is included when the Flash document is compiled, not when the SWF is run 🙂

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**Author:** ![McGuffin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mcguffin/32/408_2.png) [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-a-file-defined-in-variable/185845/4 "2006-04-17T17:11:24Z")

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Thanks anyway 🙂