# Node-red to influxdb atlas scientific

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**Created:** [3 May 2022 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-to-influxdb-atlas-scientific/62114 "2022-05-03T10:59:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [3 May 2022 12:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-to-influxdb-atlas-scientific/62114/4 "2022-05-03T12:13:36Z")

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Hello TI,

Thank you very much for your reply.

When I initially sent my message to Influx it didn't see the value as a number and wouldn't work. It seems from another post on here that I had to change it to a number so it would graph it - see picture.

I've only been doing this three weeks so sorry for being stupid, but I don't understand what 'drop and recreate the measure' means?

> [@NRD to Influxdb-strings](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nrd-to-influxdb-strings/53315/2):
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> 07/11/2021, 10:33:16node: 8127b9f1260f2605 Sys4/ORP/add98/ORPsys4 : msg.payload : string[2] "77" As I understand it, you just want the "77" from the above output, which as you noted is a string. I had a similar question and I learned you can use a change node, regex, or match to 'extract' the value you want. See [here](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/split-string-into-text-and-integers/49889/8).

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