Updating label from Firebase

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I'm a total newbie to App Inventor and have created the app to read data from a Firebase database.

One of the items is when the data was last updated and it is stored in this format: 10/27/2023 8:31:14 ET.

I have a block that updates the label with the last update date/time that it receives from Firebase.

However, it is only showing 10. I think it's because it trims on the '/'. So I switched it to a "-" and it showed the full 10-27-2023, but dropped the time.

My questions is how do I configure the block update so that it picks up all the data including / and spaces.

This is the simple statement I'm currently using:

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Show how you store the data in Firebase, both the program code that stores it, and how it looks in the Firebase console.

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The data in Firebase is stored as a string like this - f_lastupdated:"10/27/2023 11:27:12 ET"

and in my original code the variable is also declared as a string (String lastupdated; ).

It's nothing fancy, but in the app is the "/" and the space that are causing the issue. So my question is how do I code it in MIT App Inventor to ignore these characters and update the label with the full string.

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Had you used the Firebase component to store the data in Firebase, those / characters would have been escaped to allow them to be read by the Firebase component.

Here are other ways to handle this:

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