.Site.Data.lang.en shows up as string, expected as code

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So what I’m doing is I have a theme that will have a data/lang folder with a bunch of files, like en.yml and lt.yml or whatever.

In these files, you can access language strings for the theme like this: .Site.Data.lang.en.okStatus. Here’s the problem: I can’t hardcode a language in the theme, I want it to be changeable from the config.yml file. As such, I’ve got a .Site.LanguageCode variable that would change whether it would be lt, or en, or en-CA, etc.

My code:

{{ $path := .Site.LanguageCode | printf "%s.%s" ".Site.Data.lang" | printf "%s" }}

{{ $path }} returns .Site.Data.lang.en.

I expect: map[downStatus:Experiencing major issues disruptedStatus:Experiencing disruptions noticeStatus:Please read announcement okStatus:All systems operationalx].

Also, I took a look at this, which kinda helped, but not really? String / Variable Concatenation to build Path for partial It’s kinda similar.

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What that does is build the path string for you, so it just prints out Site.Data.lang.en instead of actually accessing data/lang/en.*.

index is probably more helpful.

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can you give an example snippet?

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pointyfar linked to an example: https://gohugo.io/functions/index-function/#example-load-data-from-a-path-based-on-front-matter-params