Get a variable from a variable?

RouterOS Scripting
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Dear experts,
sorry, I’m very very poor knowledge of scripting…

I was able to add my IP in a global variable, like:
:global WAN1 “100.10.20.40”
:global WAN2 “100.10.20.50”

it would be nice to achieve something like:
:log info “WAN1 IP is 100.10.20.40 and WAN2 IP is 100.10.20.50”

goal is to “get” the WAN name to set $WAN1/2 , like $[$[/interface get [find name=WAN1] name]]

Is this possible?

Hope this is understandable :slight_smile:

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is a nonsense

[/interface get [find name=WAN1] name]

everytime, if WAN1 exist, the result is WAN1


If you must insert WAN1 or WAN2 on the script, are already WAN1 and WAN2…

Be more clear.

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Right, it was not very accurate…

  1. In the DHCP up script I get the interface and address + create a global variable:
    :local WANif [/interface get $“interface” name]
    :local WANip [:tostr $“lease-address”]
    [:parse “:global $WANif $WANip”] ← THANKS to REXTENDED for this!
    :put $WAN1 → 100.10.20.40

  2. In the DHCP down, I know the interface name but not the previous IP:
    :local WANif [/interface get $“interface” name]
    :log warning “Interface down, IP 100.10.20.40 is not available” ← to retrieve IP from interface name, $WANif → WAN1 or WAN2 , then with the WAN name i should “call” the global variable $WAN1 → 100.10.20.40, something like [$[$WANif]]

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Thanks



Bad approach.

Simply create one global array with inside interface / ip pair “WANx=o.l.d.ip;WANy=an.othe.r.ip”,
is more easy and intuitive.

WRITE

:global globalvarname

:local WANif [/interface get $“interface” name]
:local WANip [:tostr $“lease-address”]

:set ($globalvarname->$WANif) $WANip

READ

:global globalvarname

:local WANif [/interface get $“interface” name]
:local previousIP ($globalvarname->$WANif)
EXTRA: Consider that one interface can have more than on IP, and get do not support arrays as results…

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Thanks again @rextended, you’re so clever!
I wasn’t that good integrating what I was trying to achieve, in the end, using :if ($WANif=WAN1) do= else=, I got a variable of WAN1IP WAN1=100.10.20.40 which is fine, it’s just for hobby.

MikroTik community owe you a lot!

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Thank you, but remember that you too are a piece that everyone needs.