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+## Project version can be specified with a file
+
+Meson can be instructed to load project's version string from an
+external file like this:
+
+```meson
+project('foo', 'c' version: files('VERSION'))
+```
+
+The version string would be set to the first line of the `VERSION`
+file. Leading and trailing whitespace on the file is stripped. \ No newline at end of file