python - Evaluating a expression in quotes failing in robot framework

Question

*** Variables ***

${text1}      Jack's mother said "Hello" to me 
${text2}      Jack's mother said "Hello" to me

*** Test Cases ***
    ${result}=    Set Variable If    '${text1}' in '${text2}'    ${TRUE}    ${FALSE}

Above code is giving error as Evaluating expression failed: SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1)

Single quote is causing this issue, but I dont want to change variable value and evaluate them as they are. Replacing with double quotes is also not working and giving same error.

Can some one suggest how to evaluate this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65935411/evaluating-a-expression-in-quotes-failing-in-robot-framework

Answer 1

You can directly use robot variables in expressions by removing the curly braces from the variable name.

${result}=    Set Variable If    $text1 in $text2    ${TRUE}    ${FALSE}

This is covered in the BuiltIn Library documentation under a section called Evaluating Expressions