# How do I get value from an array
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-get-value-from-an-array/12267
**Category:** General
**Created:** [15 June 2019 13:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-get-value-from-an-array/12267 "2019-06-15T13:52:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [15 June 2019 13:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-get-value-from-an-array/12267/1 "2019-06-15T13:52:31Z")
I have the following array which feeds a to chart node, I want to send it through a function node or a change node and extract "Saturday" to a msg.payload but everything I tried failed I just cannot get it.
Thought it would be something like msg.payload = msg.payload[0]lables[0]; any help would be appreciated, thanks.
6/15/2019, 2:38:27 PM[node: a69168cd.b4dae8](http://192.168.0.194:1880/#)
x\_profile : msg : Object
object
topic: "x\_profile"
payload: array[1]
0: object
series: array[2]
data: array[2]
labels: array[1]
0: "Saturday"
qos: 0
retain: false
\_msgid: "3d5d3980.b17176"
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [15 June 2019 13:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-get-value-from-an-array/12267/2 "2019-06-15T13:55:00Z")
This page in the docs explains how you can use the debug sidebar to find the path to any message element: [https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/messages](https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/messages)
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### Author:  [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [15 June 2019 15:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-get-value-from-an-array/12267/3 "2019-06-15T15:26:25Z")
That link is great, sorted it straight away thanks.