Simple concatenation of two strings

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I’m trying to do what I’d have expected to be one of the simplest things possible: concatenate the value of a variable with another literal string in a json object.

The problem is that no matter what I try I end up with quotes in places I don’t want them. For example "\"post\"_created". That’s the output from this setup:

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I’ve tried concatenating with + between strings, there seems to be no concat function (despite what Claude says).

I’m clearly missing something very obvious since this must be a common use case.

Any guidance appreciated.

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Are you sure you don’t already have “” in the string? Because this seems to be working:
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Can you share the output of module 18 so we can see what the value of postType is?

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Sure thing.

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Oh, maybe it’s not necessary to enclose a string literal in quotes in Make?

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Yeah.

Unless you don’t specifically need “” in the output, you don’t need to place them.

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Yeah, just tested it. I guess I figured that would be a symbol/variable without the quotes. Wish I’d asked earlier!

Thanks for the super fast reply!

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