[Ship Designer]

Macro expansion is very useful but I see it mostly in use for replacing numbers. I'm wondering it there's a way to use it also for other types of text replacement in dictionaries, such as:

// setFieldsDict identifier
         PhaseName  Foo;

defaultFieldValues  (volScalarFieldValue  alpha.$PhaseName 0);



// transportProperties dictionary
phases  ($PhaseName1 $PhaseName2);



// fvSolution regular expression
solvers  {
    "alpha.$PhaseName.*"  {
        ...
    }
}



// controlDict systemCall function object
   startTime  123;

MySystemCall  {
    ...
    writeCalls  ("doStuff.sh postProcessing/ResultsFile$startTime.txt");
    ...
}

I tried using curly braces {} and looked up how it would be used in shell scripts which use a similar syntax, but I keep getting error messages. I searched the forum and the documentation and can only find either very simple examples, use with numbers or with codestream in-dictionary calculations.

If this works it would save time by allow to specify a few things that I need to adjust often in one central place and avoid having to correct them in many different places every time. Thanks for any suggestions!