Include File only parsed once?

Question

I was expecting to be able to inlude a file multiple times in order to requse common steps in a larger sequence.  It looks like the include file is only included once.  Is this the indended behavior?  Is there a way to include common steps more than once?

File : bob.pu

@startuml

Bob->Alice : hello

Alice->Bob : what

!include bob_i_need_help.ipu

!include bob_i_need_help.ipu

@enduml

 

File : bob_i_need_help.ipu

 

@startuml

Alice->Bob : I need help

Bob->Alice : Ok, here is some help

@enduml

 

Only 1 include is displayed.  It looks like I am using version 8049 of plantuml.

 

Answer 1

This is not very well documented, but you can use !include_many instead of !include in that case.

Hope this helps!

Comments

Thank you for your response.