IF Seal: A Twine query about variables within links (Harlow)

04 Aug, 2025

**Hello dear IF seal :) This is sort of a tech question, so no problem if you can't answer it--I was wondering if there was any way to have variables exist inside passage links? Text example of this is [[I'm $p l a y e r n a m e .]] T h e v a r i a b l e h a d a l r e a d y b e e n s e t a l r e a d y p r i o r t o t h e t e x t, b u t i t^{'} s j u s t s h o w i n g u p a s "$ playername" whenever I try to test it :( For reference I use Harlowe + Twine for coding.

Thanks!**

Dear Twining Friend,

My Harlowe knowledge is as rusty as an old anchor on a shipwreck, but this is indeed possible!

If your variable is $playername and the link to which you want to go next is nextpassage, you can do:

(link: "I'm $playername")[(goto: "nextpassage")]

Best of luck with your Twine project, my friend!

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