[texhax] How to dereference a \ref in a command definition?

[martin f krafft]

Hello,

I am trying to write a command to manipulate some section
references. My problem is that when I pass it something like

  \ref{mysection}

in #1, then \meaning{#2} tells me it's

  \protect\ref{mysection}

If I define a variable with that value (I am probably not using the
right terms here...),

  \def\myref{#2}

then I can get rid of the \protect and \meaning\myref gives:

  \ref{mysection}

What I would really want/need at this stage is the section ref
"unpacked", so replaced with its number, e.g. 4.1.2.

How can I achieve this?

Thank you!

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