Using variables in Business Rules

Hello Experts,
Do you know if it's possilble to declare (and use) text variables in Business Rules?
I want to do some strings treatment (concatenation, substring) and I need to use variables.
Regards,
Rodrigo

Hi,
thanks for your answers.
But without variables I don't know if it's possible to do the following:
I have a member dimension (that is from text type) and I want to access to it's content and, with some string treatment, reach to a member that I will FIX.
How can I access to the content of the text dimension member?
I give you the example:
Let's supose that the name of the text dimension member is TEXTMEMBER.
For Example if I use @SUBSTRING("TEXTMEMBER", 0, 3).
If I write the member like the above I'm not reaching to the content of dimension member....
Do you know how to do this?
Regards,
Rodrigo

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