Get variables from dub.json

[dog2002]

On Wednesday, 3 March 2021 at 15:05:16 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 March 2021 at 12:50:16 UTC, dog2002 wrote:
>> How do I use variables (application version for example) from 
>> dub.json? Is it possible? For example, I want the application 
>> version to be printed.
>
> You can use command `dub describe` to get all information for a 
> dub project. It has some arguments to filter for specific 
> information and on linux you can of course use jq to filter out 
> any information from the json produced by `dub describe`.
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Thank you for your answer, but I want to put the application 
version in variable in the application code automatically during 
compiling process.