preprocessor directive

(thing) by xdc (8.5 y) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:39:09
A directive given at the beginning of a C or C++ program, telling the compiler to do something before processing (compiling) the source code.

Almost always used to "include" some header file(s). For example:

#include &<iostream.h>

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