# 'reading' but not 'including' an .as file?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-but-not-including-an-as-file/220480
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 26, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-but-not-including-an-as-file/220480 "2007-03-26T19:32:53Z")
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### Author: ![skitboxkilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@skitboxkilla](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/skitboxkilla)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-but-not-including-an-as-file/220480/1 "2007-03-26T19:32:53Z")

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is there an efficient way to ‘read’ an external .as file? using ‘#include’, it get’s integrated on publish, but could it be ‘loaded’ instead, so that a change to the external text file would update a previously published .exe/.swf?

…this is another interpretation of my earlier post!  
( [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255090](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255090) )