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please explain further what you're trying to do

I'm assuming you want to store your metadata in GCBs so the metadata can be easily edited?

You might be interested in smarty tags :
{capture assign='...'} BLAH {/capture}
{assign var='...' value='BLAH'}

"assign" parameter usually tells what smarty variable output should be stored in instead of being echoed. It is commonly used in UDTs and others smarty tags ( plugins, modules).
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