# Accessing Updated Macro Variable Values

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**Created:** [March 27, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/accessing-updated-macro-variable-values/22676 "2025-03-27T01:56:16Z")\
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Yep! Macros are not programs they are templates.

The first macro is templated before any of the calls to the second macro ever run. If you were thinking of it like a program: non of the sub routines are called before the main routine exits.

Make a third macro that prints the number and call it.

You can look at what I recently did in [here](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/z-thermal-adjust-for-nozzles/22457). It’s capturing data in a loop and then calculating a result.

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