Extract variables from strings

Possibly related: Parse structured string to dictionary - General Usage - JuliaLang

A simple

_, x, _, y = split("test var_1 and var_2")

sets x and y as desired.
It was not clear from your description if variable names x and y are hard-wired or to be parsed first.
But using $x in a string does interpolation and requires x to be known.

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