hey!
Firstly I’m new to make 
How to split the “dates of rain” like below:
to look like this:
2022-11-26 02:00
2022-11-26 11:00
2022-11-26 15:00
etc…
I was trying to use split functions and more, but now it beats me.
Please help!!
below you can see how my text agregator “TEXT” look like:
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It’s important to break down your problem into manageable chunks, so let’s try that and see if you can get there… Every solution to every Make problem is about breaking down the necessary steps into a set of modules.
What do we know about the input data? It’s separated by commas and spaces. What do you think you need to do to the variable to grab just the date which has a space after it? There are lots of functions to use and split() is a terrific one. So is first() and last() which can grab the first or last elements of an array. Remember you can nest functions (ie first(split(variable;delimiter)))
What do we need to do to just get the times of rain, since those are delimited by a comma? Hint: use split() again.
See if you can set 2 variables with the input data from module 1, one for the date and one for the times of rain
You’ll see my first element still has the date of rain in it, I’ll take care of that in The text aggregator.
You’ll use the iterator module as the source module. And then you’ll need to use the array elements coming out of the iterator, taking care to lop of the date on the first element which also has the date at the start but has the 02:00 for the first time of rain. Don’t forget you have the date of rain already set as a variable in the step 2 set multiple variables step.
And voila
And yes there is a solution that uses just the iterator and text aggregator by moving the split() function right into the iterator… and grabbing the date of rain right from the initial input.
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