Can I pass a variable from a Jekyll template to an include then render data with that variable?

Question

In foo.html (a post), I have the following: ``` {% assign table_name="application" %} {% include table.html %} ``` This assignment appears to work fine in table.html ``` {% assign tableName = table_name %}

table name is: {{ tableName }}

# renders "table name is: application" ``` Now, I'm trying to sort through an array of data that I have defined in config.yml by doing the following: ``` {% for header in site.table.tableName.headers %} {{ header }} {% endfor %} ``` This gives me no output whatsoever. If I change the `for` statement to include the variable's content, not the variable, it works fine. ``` {% for header in site.table.application.headers %} ``` This leads me to believe that it's not a problem with my array but that it's either a shortcoming of Jekyll, a bug in Jekyll, or I'm not accurately constructing my statements. Any idea how I could make this work?

Accepted Answer

Looks like this can be done. I had to think about it more programmatically. What seems to be happening is that Jekyll was expecting an object and I was feeding it a string.

```
{% assign tableName = "aStringName" %}
{% include table.html %}
```

so,

```
# in _includes/table.html
{%  for header in site.table.tableName.headers %}
```

was being interpreted as

```
{%  for header in site.table."aStringName".headers %}
```

When I switched to bracket notation for the object, it was perfect.

Final result:

```
{% for header in site.table[tableName].headers %}
```

or, as Jekyll sees it,

```
{% for header in site.table['aStringName'].headers %}
```

Can I pass a variable from a Jekyll template to an include then render data with that variable?

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