Read files at compile time

[Henrik]

Robert Fraser Wrote:

> Hi Henrik,
> 
> Check out http://www.digitalmars.com/d/expression.html#ImportExpression , which can read files in as compile-time string literals. You'd then need to write a CTFE-compliant string-splitting function and mix that back in. So, you'd have:
> 
> mixin(ctfe_split("archetypes", import("file.txt")));
> 
> Which should become something like:
> 
> char[][3] archetypes = [ "foo", "bar", "baz", ];


Looks like it could be messy, but worth a try :)

There's not a lot of static information that I want to embed at the moment, but there will be more in the future. It would be nice to be able to avoid large chunks of embedded text/data in the source code by appending it at compile time.