How to source a string path in shell?

Question

I want to do things like this:

local_config="~/.local_config"
source $local_config

But it seems that the string is not treated as a file path.

I'm using Zsh.

Answer 1

~ is not expanded inside the single or double quotes. To make it work, keep ~ outside the quotes as:

local_config=~"/.local_config"