Ansible: how to construct a variable from another variable and then fetch it’s value

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If you have a variable like

vars:
myvar: xxx
xxx_var: anothervalue

the working Ansible syntax:

- debug: msg={{ vars[myvar + '_var'] }}

will give you the analogue of:

- debug: msg={{ xxx_var }}

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