variable_string_escaped

Define a variable from another string variable and escape regular expression characters in it.

⚙️ Compatible targets: Linux

Name	Documentation
name	The variable to define, the full name will be prefix.name. This parameter is required.

method: variable_string_escaped
params:
  name: VALUE

To use the generated variable, you must use the form ${<name>_escaped} where is the composed complete name of the variable you want to escape.

Please note that the variable you want to escape must be defined before this method evaluation.

With a variable defined by the generic method variable_string, named my_prefix.my_variable and valued to:

 something like [] that

Passing my_prefix.my_variable as name parameter to this method will result in a variable named my_prefix.my_variable_escaped and valued to:

something\ like\ \[\]\ that