AS2 to AS3 conversion... external array files

I'm at the tail end of writing an app in ActionScript2 for a
client and was just told that it needs to be rewritten in
ActionScript3. ((8-0
I'm pretty good at AS2, very new to AS3. So here's a question
(the first of many, I'm afraid): I currently have a series of
external data files... really just .as files each of which
instantiates and populates an array... that I've been bringing in
at compile time using
#include. The question is, what do I need to do to get those
same files into an AS3 version... do they need to be set up as
packages? Do I leave them as they are, stick 'em in the folder and
they'll show up?
Any guidance would be deeply appreciated.

move the instantiation to a class...perhaps your document
class if you are writing in Flash (as opposed to
FlexBuilder).

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