A URL that isn't a link

If I have a URL (http://...) in a macro variable that I want to appear on a wiki page, I can just write it in the code. But if I want it to display as plain text, not as a link to the URL, that doesn't seem possible. (For example, the URL may be bogus, just an example, so following a link could actually be harmful.) I can write the URL itself directlly and bound it with verbatim tags and that works. But then the variable isn't expanded and I really want to use the variable. Solution?

* Set MYURL = "http://example.com/"

I want the value of http://foswiki.org to appear here as plain text, not as a link.

-- DaveClose - 30 Aug 2013

Stick some <nop> tags into the URL. E.g.: http:<nop>//example.com renders as http:%nop%//example.com

-- CrawfordCurrie - 31 Aug 2013

Thanks, but that doesn't help. The reason this value is a variable is so that it can be used multiple places. Some of those places expect to use the value as part of an active link ("http://foswiki.org/dir/file"). The http://foswiki.org value by itself is not a valid link so I don't want it look like one when displayed alone.

-- DaveClose - 03 Sep 2013

Put the <nop> in front of the % tag when you don't want it to be a link.