How to call a set variable?

Question

Greetings,
I am creating an apple script that runs a netstat command to grab an IP address. This works.
The "Set Value of Variable" (called XX) shows the IP address that netstat runs.
The next apple script activates "Terminal" just fine.
Within Terminal, I want to tell it to "telnet" to the IP address from the Set Variable and this is where I am stuck. How do I tell it what "XX" is?
Thanks,

Answer 1

If it is the only input item in the input (previous actions can contribute to the input), your statement would be something like:
set DG to item 1 of the input
If you are only using the variable in your second AppleScript action, you can also just combine them:
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on run {input, parameters}
set DG to (do shell script "netstat -nr | grep -w 'default' | awk '{print $2}'")
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "telnet " & DG
end tell
return input -- pass on the input
end run
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