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Flow is adding comments to ALL list items even when there aren't any comments

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I'm spectacularly failing to copy comments from the comments of each sharepoint list item into a separate Comments column. Sounds simple....
 
Here is the flow:
Here is the apply to each append to string varFormattedComments:
here is the Update item action:
The problem: It's adding comments to all the list items. I've added a comment "test" to some (not all) list items but its adding "test" to ALL list items. Please....help.
 
UPDATE: It's actually adding all the comments into a list item:
Any help, massively appreciated.
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    cardinaluk Profile Picture
    73 on at
    Figured out this issue:
    The string variable I was updating should be cleared within the loop:
    A lot of the tutorials out there show different ways of doing this. Unfortunately most don't go into the details you really need to know.

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