How do i embed a metadata value into the name of a figure i display?

[stefaniecg]

Description

I have a metadata which i can write as i call my quarto script from the comand line, called fname.
I want to use this metadata value to display an image:

![Figure](./../<fname>.png)

How can i do this in quarto?
Any help is highly appreciated.

[mcanouil]

I would suggest to go through the documentation and use the search engine. it's not perfect but there is no way around reading a tool documentation to learn how it works. There is also a lot of related discussions which contains the solution of hints towards one.

See https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/variables.html#meta.

Also, please try to make reproducible example as outlined in the template when opening a new discussion, it helps understand what is your "meta" thing from your example.

Input	Output
--- title: "Quarto Playground" format: html my-image: "https://quarto.org/quarto.png" --- {#fig-placeholder}

[stefaniecg]

Thank you for the reply.

I wanted to embed the value inside the text.
I meant something like this:
Which also works just fine, thank you!

---
title: "Quarto Playground"
format: html
my-image: nameofimage
---

![An image](./../dira/figure_{{< meta my-image >}}_text.png)