# Extract data from object

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/extract-data-from-object/89
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [11 May 2018 11:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/extract-data-from-object/89 "2018-05-11T11:30:59Z")
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#### Post date: [11 May 2018 13:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/extract-data-from-object/89/8 "2018-05-11T13:37:56Z")

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You need to read up on JavaScript.

Normally, JavaScript will assume that varable/object names meet the naming standards for JavaScript. However, being the rather flexible language it is, you can use “invalid” names too!

To do that though, you cannot use “dot” names. Instead you have to use something like:

```auto
{{ msg.payload.System['Git Built'] }}

```

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