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Hi, super nooby question.  I need to access the raw string value of a StringOutput to interpolate it into another string.  The `Apply` function doesn't return a raw string.  how can I do this?  Small go snippet would be awesome.

oh I see, you can't ever get a handle on the string value in the top level scope unless you assign to a variable inside of the `Apply` function.  Apply is mostly just used to transform `pulumi.StringOutput`s

You have to do in an async way. One way is to use a wait group and assign the inner apply value to an outside variable.
```var str string
var wg sync.WaitGroup
wg.Add(1)
myPulumiOutput.ApplyT(func(s string) error {
  defer wg.Done()
  str = s
  return nil
})
wg.Wait()
```
It's from my phone so expect lots of errors, but that's the general idea

makes sense <@U01DHKYR6UQ>! thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

<@U01DHKYR6UQ> I'm actually not sure that would work, because Pulumi runs all your code first to create the DAG of resource dependencies.  This would block that I think.  <@UCWG26BH7> am I correct?

<@U02F3866TRA> were you able to figure this out?