# Parsing JSON array with only values
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/parsing-json-array-with-only-values/65368
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [July 24, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/parsing-json-array-with-only-values/65368 "2024-07-24T14:17:01Z")
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### Author:  [@rboss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rboss)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/parsing-json-array-with-only-values/65368/1 "2024-07-24T14:17:01Z")
Hello everyone,
Here's a simple problem, but one I can't find a solution for:
From this array
```
{
"genre": [
"Hip-Hop/Rap",
"Music",
"Hip-Hop",
"Hardcore Rap"
]
}
```
How can I extract all genre values?
Ideally, the correct command to use would be `json_select_many "array" "object" s s n n`, but since there is no key on each value, what would make sense would be `json_select_many "array" "" s s n n`. But this doesn't work; or rather, returns `[empty]`
I've also tried
```
(...)
json_foreach "genre"
OutputTo "integer"
json_foreach_counter
json_select_array "genre" "%integer%"
OutputTo "testOutput"
SayRest
Set "%integer%"
json_foreach_end
```
This should assign 1~4 to `%integer%` and then use `json_select_array "genre" "1~4" ` to get the values; but this returns an error on `json_select_array "genre" "%integer%"` because `%integer%` is interpreted as a string and not as a number, which breaks the command.
This test data is a valid JSON array, as per validation by [jsonlint.com](http://jsonlint.com).
So what am I missing?
Thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@rboss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rboss)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/parsing-json-array-with-only-values/65368/2 "2024-07-27T18:03:54Z")
> [@On another topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/65370/1):
>
> In the original `discogs.inc` I found this line
> `json_select_array "genre" -1 ", "`
Well, this does work..... But if I needed to process each value independently (with an `If` condition, for example), I would need to work with the string generated from that array, and not the array itself.
Using `json_select_array "genre" -1 ","` I would get the following string:
`Hip-Hop/Rap,Music,Hip-Hop,Hardcore Rap`
If I wanted to loop through each value, and apply a condition only if the "Music" genre were present, I could do
```
(...)
RegexpReplace "^.*" ",${0}"
Do
MoveChar 1
If "Music"
SayUntil "," --> or something else
EndIf
FindInLine "," 1 1
MoveChar -1
While ","
```
which works perfectly fine for "Music", but would cause trouble for "Hip-Hop", because there would be 2 matches. This can be negated by using `If "Hip-Hop,"` instead, because now the `If` condition would match the entire value until the delimiter (for comma-separated values, in this example).
Now, the same process, with the same raw data BUT with key--value pairs:
```auto
{
"genre": [
{"key": "Hip-Hop/Rap"},
{"key": "Music"},
{"key": "Hip-Hop"},
{"key": "Hardcore Rap"}
]
}
```
To apply a condition if "Hip-Hop" is present:
```
json_foreach "genre"
json_select "key"
If "Hip-Hop"
(...) --> do something
EndIf
json_foreach_end
```
Which is much simpler.
Other than `json_select_array`, which will -depending on the modifiers- return the nth value of an array, or return all elements from the array in a string -which will then require further processing-, I can't find a way to work with all the elements in a JSON array, _one by one, in a loop_, if said array does not contain keys, _and_ while benefiting from the JSON format of the raw data (that is, enabling the use of JSON related commands).
I hope this time I was able to convey more clearly what I'm hoping to achieve.