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hi everyone, I have a use case in which I need to parse a string array to create k8s secret, however the array is dynamic, i.e. depending on some condition, it may contain a predefined list or it may need to join the predefined list with another dynamic list which is pulumi.Output&lt;string []&gt;. I keep getting Output string[] is not compatible with string [] due to missing operator such as push etc. Is there anything that I can "marry" these 2 data types?

from what I understand, you probably want to use methods like `.apply` that are available in `pulumi.Output` objects

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/inputs-outputs/#apply>

if you need to modify the Pulumi Output, you cannot directly operate on it (as you said, `Output&lt;string[]&gt;` is not `string[]`)

however, you can transform it within function passed to `apply` method

This joins an Outout&lt;string[]&gt; to a string[]:
```outputStringArray = outputStringArray.apply(oa =&gt; oa.concat(stringArray));```