I am trying to learn this, so was reading the info on this page: Redirecting… . Mainly because I would like to split this: [split%20this%2001] Output is coming from a html node as a single message containing an array in msg.payload. (in case off is this a part of the flow) [{"id":"d2b743ab.0d34…

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Can you add the HTML that the "Get Info" http call is returning? It's hard to know for sure what's wrong without knowing what is in the message. Some notes: Based on your screen shot, it looks like msg.payload contains an array not a string... split is not a method on arrays (it's on strings), s…

@dustinw Dustin is correct, the payload is an array. If youi want to split one of the members of the array you could use var words = msg.payload[0].split(" "); But maybe the question you need to answer is "What are you trying to do?"

Thanks for the response. Adding the code from the HTML is not that easy, I think. It's generated by a device (Esp8266 with two relay output) that is standing here. But as I understand it now: split is not a method on arrays (it's on strings), so that is the issue. Didn't know that for sure becaus…

[image] zenofmud: "What are you trying to do?" Good question. I would like to split this array in two numbers (5 and 4 in this case) and there state (5 = off and 4 = off in this case) would be the very short story. The long story is probably very boring because I am just trying to find out …

Great, now you just need to process those arrays and you will be on your way :grinning:

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