Embed data in a C++ program
Use macros. Technically that file would be source code file but it wouldn't look like this.Example:
//queries.incl - SQL queriesQ(SELECT * FROM Users)Q(INSERT [a] INTO Accounts)//source.cpp#define Q(query) #query,char * queries[] = {#include "queries.incl"};#undef QLater on you could do all sorts of other processing on that file by the same file, say you'd want to have array and a hash map of them, you could redefine Q to do another job and be done with it.