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Is this not possible?

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I have tried with quotes (as in title above) and without (as with everything else above),
but no love. See: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/plants/gardens/Australian_Wonders/
I am in the unique position of needing to move a site into ee so that we can upgrade an old server, but not being able to move it yet because too much of what would be really useful (multi-select custom fields, etc.) is not available to me, basically because the old server is running PHP 4* with no chance of upgrade….

No, that’s not possible. {assign_variable} is a single string replacement that’s performed only once, at the beginning of code compilation. It’s not a “true” variable in the strict programmer’s sense.