# Multiple Pass Variable Expansion

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-pass-variable-expansion/18665>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 2, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-pass-variable-expansion/18665 "2015-07-02T16:39:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mike\_Ray](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Ray)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-pass-variable-expansion/18665/1 "2015-07-02T16:39:33Z")

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I found this post ([http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29276198/ansible-how-to-construct-a-variable-from-another-variable-and-then-fetch-its-v](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29276198/ansible-how-to-construct-a-variable-from-another-variable-and-then-fetch-its-v)) and was hoping to find a way to cope with it.

To sum up though, basically I have a situation where I’d like to get the value of a value of a variable.

e.g.:

_defaults/main.yml:_