General ⇒ \addcontentsline \input

[fpires]

Hi, everyone!

I have tried to use the \input command inside the \addcontentsline one, but it does not seem to work. Hereunder is the MWE:

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\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
		\tableofcontents	
		\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\input{Test}}
\end{document}

The file "Test" has just one charachter, which is the number 2. If I write any text inside the last curly braces of \addcontentsline, it works, and if I use \input{Test} outside the \addcontentsline command, it also works normally, printing 2. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

[Johannes_B]

You are dealing with a fragile thing here, you have to \protect it.
Though i am not sure what you are trying to achieve. Maybe we can find a better solution?

[fpires]

Hello, Johannes,

first of all thank you for your answer. I apologize for the late reply, but I was out of work for some days.

Well, what I would like to achieve in my code is: the amount of pages of each appendix must be literally written in the table of contents. For example, if appendix A has 5 pages, the table of contents should look like that:

......
Appendix A - 5 pages ....... page 89
......

The question is that I would like to do it automatically, i. e., not counting manually the amount of pages of each appendix and writting it in the table of contents. In order to achieve it, I made a file - called Test in my example - that should be fed with the total number of pages of a particular appendix in this way:

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\section*{Appendix A --- Title of Appendix A}

\setcounter{paginaini}{\value{page}}
\addtocounter{paginaini}{-1}

Text of Appendix A. 

\setcounter{paginas}{\value{page}}
\addtocounter{paginas}{-\value{paginaini}}

\newwrite\temporario
\immediate\openout\temporario=Test
\immediate\write\temporario{\thepaginas}
\immediate\closeout\temporario

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\input{Test} pages}

So I should run the code twice to get the correct amount of pages written in the table of contents. Would you have a suggestion for my case?

Thank you very much!

[fpires]

Thank you, Johannes, your suggestion about \protect worked perfectly!