Expand Variable inside of Temp Trigger

[ililili]

testvar1 = "FIRED"
tempTrigger("MyPattern", [[echo(]]..testvar1..[[)]])

Why doesn't this work? Ideally I'd like to expand a local variable, but even a global variable doesn't work.

[Iocun]

your tempTrigger concatenates the echo and testvar1 to the following string: [[echo(FIRED)]], which it then executes as code. Since in that string FIRED has no quotes around it, Mudlet thinks it is a variable name, but since it isn't, it actually does echo(nil).

What you thus want is:
testvar1 = "FIRED"
tempTrigger("MyPattern", [[echo("]]..testvar1..[[")]])

[ililili]

Thanks IO.