include and import description

Can some one please shed some light on include and import,
what I was thinking I could do with either one of those was on these lines

some function(){
 print some stuff
 print some more stuff
 call include or import here and get them print some        
 stuff
 and then print some more stuff here  
}

Is it possible to get functionality on the above lines?

Khalid

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