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H. H. WardC Programming for the PIC Microcontrollerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5525-4_7

7. Creating a Header File

Hubert Henry Ward1  
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Lancashire, UK
 

This chapter covers how to create a header file. It then uses a header file in a program to control the LCD in 4-bit mode.

Header Files

These can be used to reduce the size of a program listing and split a program up into different sections for different members of a team to work on. These header files will all be brought together using the #include statement in the main program.

One of the most useful applications of header files is when a lot of programs are going to use a peripheral device in exactly the same way in all the programs. One of the main peripheral devices ...

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