On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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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)

Thanks for the hint. Fortunately, I just needed the date in the format [year,/,mm,/,dd], so I can do something like \expanded{\setvariables[test:date][\getvariable{test}{date}]} \immediate\openout \scratchwrite test-001 \immediate\write \scratchwrite {The date entered was} \immediate\write \scratchwrite {\getvariable{test:date}{y}/\getvariable{test:date}{m}/\getvariable{test:date}{d}} \closeout\scratchwrite Aditya