Can Conditional Variable Assignment be Done in Azure Pipelines?

Question

Azure Pipelines has Expressions and Conditions, but I can find no way to assign one of two values to a variable, based on a condition.

Is there any way to accomplish what this pseudo-code would?

    ${{ if endsWith( variables['Build.SourceBranchName'], '/master' ) }}: 
      buildVersion: variables['mavenVersion']
    ${{ else }}: 
      buildVersion: variables['Build.SourceBranchName']

Answer 1

I was closer than I thought. This is not pretty, but it worked. (with more yaml context)

variables:
  ${{ if eq( variables['Build.SourceBranchName'], 'master' ) }}: 
    buildVersion: ${{ variables['mavenVersion'] }}
  ${{ if ne( variables['Build.SourceBranchName'], 'master' ) }}: 
    buildVersion: ${{ variables['Build.SourceBranchName'] }}

  buildKey: ${{ format('{0}_{1}', variables['supportReleaseNumber'], variables['buildVersion']) }}
  buildNum: $[counter(variables['buildKey'], 1)]  # same as $(Rev:r), but more widely usable 

name: $(buildKey)_$(buildNum)  # build run name