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19: Shortcuts Updates

Automators

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How to Get Text From Input

There are several shortcuts you can use to get something from input. There's get text from input there's gets numbers from input but essentially what this does is so if I have a sentence that says by 42 carrots and don't ask me why I'm buying 42 carrots because I don't have a good reason it will then just get those numbers for me. These are not the kinds of variables that we are used to as programmers perhaps but these are very useful for just getting that specific information that you need from something. For example say if you are talking to an API and it gives you the temperature with C or F at the end for Celsius and Fahrenheit but you actually want to do something and convert

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