How do I fix a flowchart-transitioned global variable?

I'm creating a choose your own adventure type game, based on flowcharts. I have to call an output value to become my text. However, I added some randomness to make the text more interesting (here's one example):

"Hello. The time is " & choose(5,7,9) & ":15 PM. Have a good day!"

Then, I turn that flowchart output into a global variable, then "set text" to my global variable.

Unfortunately, when I do this, the text comes out literally as it was written, with the & choose(5,7,9) &, as opposed to coming out as "Hello. The time is 7:15 PM. Have a good day!"

Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

set the text first and then set the variable to textobj.text

That should work if you do it in that order, the one you posted was in reverse converting it to a string in a variable and then trying to set text with variable. Also what is the importance of the variable, can't you just set text?

Well, what I meant was I took your advice and changed my code after seeing your suggestion, and that didn't work either. Also, the importance of the variable is that I use some other code and an extra variable or two to make the text appear quickly letter by letter, as if someone is typing it.

I also tried just getting the value from the flowchart directly to the text, eliminating the "typing" mechanism, but it still showed the "& choose etc."

Have you tried the typewriter setting on the text object? That works quite well for what you're describing. What is the flowchart? I guess that's where the problem lies because it is already a string.