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There were some inconsistencies about the indexing of the examples. In
some places the txid starting with "91261eaf..." was indexed with a 1,
but it was reported as the first element of the array returned by the
command `bitcoin-cli listunspent` (an array with index starting from 0)
and later, in the same chapter, the same txid was reported as the
element with index 0 of the array returned by the same command.

Searching in text the txid I deduced that the correct indexing for that
txid was 1. So I made changes accordingly.
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Grabbing data out of a JSON object is easy, but what if that JSON object is in a JSON array? The `listunspent` command offers a great example, because it'll usually contain a number of different transactions. What if you want to capture specific information from _one_ of them?
When working with a JSON array, the first thing you need to do is tell JQ which index to access. For example, you might have looked through your transactions in `listunspent` and decided that you wanted to work with the second of them. You use `'.[1]'` to access that first element. The `[]` says that we're referencing a JSON array and the `0` says we want the 0th index.
When working with a JSON array, the first thing you need to do is tell JQ which index to access. For example, you might have looked through your transactions in `listunspent` and decided that you wanted to work with the second of them. You use `'.[1]'` to access that second element. The `[]` says that we're referencing a JSON array and the `1` says we want the 1st index.
```
$ bitcoin-cli listunspent | jq -r '.[1]'
{
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ $ bitcoin-cli listunspent | jq -r '.[1]'
"safe": true
}
```
You can then capture an individual value from that selected array by (1) using a pipe _within_ the JQ arguments; and then (2) requesting the specific value afterward, as in the previous example. The following would capture the `txid` from the 0th JSON object in the JSON array produced by `listunspent`:
You can then capture an individual value from that selected array by (1) using a pipe _within_ the JQ arguments; and then (2) requesting the specific value afterward, as in the previous example. The following would capture the `txid` from the 1st JSON object in the JSON array produced by `listunspent`:
```
$ bitcoin-cli listunspent | jq -r '.[1] | .txid'
91261eafae15ea53dedbea7c1db748c52bbc04a85859ffd0d839bda1421fda4c