get the text of a stored procedure into a variable in SQL Server

Question

I want to loop through several stored procs and extract one string form each of them to use in another procedure (basically the 4-part remote server string)

So I can

Answer 1

Nicholas Carey's third option needs some changes,

object_definition function needs object_id as parameter,

so the code should be

declare @source_code varchar(max)
declare @objectid int
select @objectid=object_id('dbo.my_stored_procedure_name')
select @source_code = object_definition(@objectid )

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