Re: \write \getvariable and expansion

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Can someone explain what should be the correct order of expansion 
> here. I want to enter the date entered as a variable to a file.
> 
> \setvariables
>    [test]
>    [date={d=11,m=11,y=2006}]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> The date entered was \expanded{\date[\getvariable{test}{date}]}.
> 
> \immediate\openout \scratchwrite test-001
> \immediate\write \scratchwrite {The date entered was}
> % None of these work.

The best you can get is:

  \immediate\write\scratchwrite{\noexpand\date[\getvariable{test}{date}]}

(The variable is expanded, but \date is not)

Greetings, Taco